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

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

mkelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu wrote:

(snipped portion which says you have a IIGS)
>Format a DD disk 720K with a PC.  Copy the first 64 blocks from an 800K
>ProDOS formmatted disk onto the 720K disk using your Apple II.  I used
>ProBlock for this purpose.  Next, "delete" the disk using Copy II+ and
>behold as exactly 1440 blocks are free for ProDOS use!

Why not just format 1.44MB on the PC and "erase" the disk in the GS
Finder.  That will give you 1.44MB free for ProDOS use.  Ditto for 720K
format erased in the GS Finder giving you 800K.

>I'm not certain what possibilities this holds, but it looks like with
>careful programming, one might be able to read and write PC 1.44MB and
>720K disks for file transfers...

With the MS-DOS FST and the MUG! NDA, you can do this already
from the GS Finder.