Re: Apple II 3.5" Controller and SuperDrive problems...

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 4 Mar 1998 05:08:35 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

[snip]
>If you can't get it to format even with Finder or other GS specific format
>utilities, just buy pre-formatted Mac or PC floppies and use the Erase
>option from the Finder.  It takes less than 1 second and gives you an
>instant 1.44MB ProDOS disk.

Are you sure about this?  It seems to me that if the disk isn't
initialized as a ProDOS disk, erasing it should give you an error.
Especially if you try to erase a 720k MFM disk into an 800k GCR.  It
just ain't gonna happen.

I'm just curious as to whether you are indeed erasing an MS-DOS
formatted disk into a ProDOS disk because, as far as I know, it is
impossible.

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