Re: DSDD vs HD disks

[mjk31124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael J. K.)]

hochstrasse@urz.unibas.ch writes:

>No, prob! I do it all the time! Just cover the extra hole with a tape.
>Funny that the AE 3.5" drive knows when a HD disk is inside (and reports
>an error) although it's a DD drive. But the hole-covering trick works...

This is probably because the AE drive can be "upgraded" to a HD drive.
Since all they do is install a chip the mechanism is proably already
HD compatible.  The AE HD drive, I believe, is a 1.6meg format which
isn't compatible with 1.44meg disks... correct me if I'm wrong.

>Anyway, it always worked well, even on SuperDrive Macs...

Yep... also the extra tab tapes I had left over from my 5 1/4 disk
days work great on covering those HD holes.  You know those stickers
for "write-enabling" 5 1/4 disks.  :)

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