Re: Cannot write to 5.25" disks from 6.0.1 Finder

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <QeqdnXJrqZhuw4rfRVn-ug@comcast.com> Bill Garber wrote:
> 
> "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
> 20050219230655629+1300@News.Individual.NET">news:20050219230655629+1300@News.Individual.NET...
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>: Do you have the Apple SuperDrive controller card installed? If you're
>: running a 1.4MB drive from the built-in disk drive port it can only 
>: be used as an 800KB drive.
> 
> I was under the impression that the AEHD3.5 driver allowed it to work
> as a 1.44 MB drive even on the SmartPort. I have one but have yet to 
> try this theory.

Applied Engineering used to make a high density drive that had a 
capacity of 1.6MB. This worked off the normal IIGS drive port, as an 
800KB drive with the normal Apple driver, or as a 1.6MB drive with the 
AE driver. Unfortunately this meant you couldn't boot from a 1.6MB disk.

Later they just made 1.4MB drives, probably once Apple released the 
SuperDrive for the Apple II.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/
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