Re: ADTPro with fast Disk II reads released

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message 1188225889.815776.84180@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com">news:1188225889.815776.84180@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
: On Aug 27, 6:00 am, Polymorph <mike.a.steph...@gmail.com> wrote:
: > Well I can confirm my previous answer to question 1) - I re-did the test
: > using a fresh disk and the disk was reported as <I/O ERROR> with 1600
: > blocks before the format, and "BLANK" with 280 blocks after the format.
: > So it is looking quite possible that it is the Superdrive causing problems.
: The format code I borrowed sends a SmartPort format request to do the
: low-level media formatting, and I suspect that's working fine.  I then
: grab the device characteristics (specifically, the block count) as
: displayed and use that to write the block bitmap on the newly
: formatted image.  So it's definitely my fault for writing the wrong
: bitmap, but there's some peculiarity going on with the drive.  Do the
: slot/drive numbers change any before and after, by chance?
:
: Also... what's the model number of a Superdrive?  I see from this
: page:
: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/drives.html
: that there's a "Superdrive controller," but none of the drives
: (Unidisk 3.5", Apple 3.5" external, etc.) are actually named
: "Superdrive."  Which one is yours?

Read the description of this one. It is
basically what a "Superdrive" consists of.

"Apple FDHD External (G7287)"

I repeat the link as sometimes newsreaders
drop older posts.

http://www.vintagemacworld.com/drives.html

William Garber
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