Re: Apple IIe + SuperDrive = HELP ME !!!!!

["Bill Garber" <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
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> Bill Garber wrote:
>
> > I believe the only Copy II Plus version that does 1.44
> > ProDOS disks has to be version 8 or higher. I know that
> > none of the version 7's would, and the only next higher
> > one I have is version 9. I don't know if you can do MS-DOS
> > 1.44 disks with it, I never tried to run MS-DOS Utilities on
> > a IIe, and I only have superdrives on my GS now. Peter, if you
> > are around, can you answer this for us?
>
> I have versions 6, 7, 8 and 9 and they all format 1.44mb disks.
> It doesn't take any special utility to format 1.4mb floppies.
> Any utility that formats ProDOS will do. Some early ones might not
> let you select any slot but 6 or might only use the slot it was
> booted from, which would make things awkward.
>
> You are correct in that some versions of Copy II Plus won't work
> for this. Versions 1 to 5 were preProDOS so can't do ProDOS at all.
> I should have mentioned that.
>
> It's been years since I tried anything with HFS and a IIe. I didn't
> need to since I had Macs that read ProDOS disks. Of course now the
> currant Macs don't so I guess for some people it may be important.
> With HFS and the IIe, HFSLink andA2FX come to mind.
>
> Wayne

ShrinkIt will NOT format a 1.44 mb disk on the IIe, I tried it.
Yes, Of course Pre-ProDOS anything won't do any 1.44 disk
AFAIK, and some ProDOS versions have problems on the II+,
but for the most part, yes, you can pretty much format them on
anything. I wondered if MS-DOS utils worked on IIe.

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