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Re: Highdensity disk reading problem
- Subject: Re: Highdensity disk reading problem
- From: shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)
- Date: 1996/07/15
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc, Fort Collins, Colorado
- References: <01bb726d.3e0d95a0$cc4afccc@venturis.Iglou.com>
In article <01bb726d.3e0d95a0$cc4afccc@venturis.Iglou.com>,
John Kevin Ramalho <spartan@iglou.com> wrote:
>I have an 3 1/2 AE HD drive, I can read 1.66 disks and 800k disks but I
>seem not to be able to read 1.44 disks
>can anyone help me out? where do I get the stuff I need?
You can't read MFM disks, not even 720K, without a superdrive card. AE's
1.6 mb is GCR on a high density, an oddball format not supported by anyone
else.
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Randy Shackelford I was internet
shack@frii.com when internet wasn't cool