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

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Jeff Blakeney (CUTjefbla@bconnex.net) wrote:

: 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.

Righto, that doesn't work.

: 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.

I wasn't aware that this would work until I tried it the other day. But it
really does work for HD disks.
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