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Re: AEHD and 1.44 Disks

Subject: Re: AEHD and 1.44 Disks
From: Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 21:34:35 -0700
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Andrew Webber wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently got hold of a AEHD drive and a 3.5 disk controller
> card. I am getting issues formating disks. 800K are fine, but it seems
> to throw up I/O Error 027 when formating 1.44. I am using the apple
> drivers as I believe the AE ones are not needed.

The AE drivers aren't needed if the drives connected to a superdrive card.

> I have managed to get it to format some 1.44, but not others. Was this
> drive know to be picky about which disks it liked?

Mine isn't. If cleaning the drives heads doesn't help then it might be
time to consider upgrading a 3.5" drive to 1.44mb buy swapping in the 
mechanism from an older mac.

Wayne

References:
- AEHD and 1.44 Disks
  - From: Andrew.webber2@btinternet.com (Andrew Webber)

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