Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <kWWdnTzGhLRmgtCiXTWJjA@comcast.com>,
Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>I was going to say that I just snagged one of those drives on eBay,
>but it isn't here yet. I was hoping to see if I can write 400k disks on
>my IIgs. Do you need to have special disks for this?, or will it write
>an 800k disk to 400k?
>

Use the 800k disks.  The 400K 3.5 is just a single-sided version of the
800k disk (double-sided).  (Un)Fortunately, you can't flip it over to use
the other side as a 400K disk, ala 5.25 disks which could be turned over
and used for a second 140K disk, with all the adverse disclaimers
attached.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)