Re: 1.4M drive in a 800K case

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

left_the_scene (top-)replied:

>depends. With the standard apple gs/os software, ya can't format an
>ms-dos 1.44 floppy. Ya CAN format it as a 1.44 prodos or 1.44 hfs mfm
>disk - which an IBM drive can physically read, bit won't be able to make
>sense of without some sort of device driver/file system translator.
>
>BEST way to share data is get a GS/OS desk accessory called MUG. It lets
>you read, write and format MS-dos disks.
>
>get it at:
>http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/System/Ndas/mug101.bxy
>(need gs shrinkit to unpack)
>
>John wrote:
>> 
>> So in that scenario-- Macintosh 1.4 drive on a Superdrive Controller-- if I
>> formatted a disk on the GS could I plop the disk in a Windows machine and
>> read the files, either natively or  with some converter software? Or is it
>> GCR or whatever instead of MFMl, and just can't be read?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> "David Chiu" <none@nowhere.org> wrote in message
>> a3mlep01gqt@enews1.newsguy.com">news:a3mlep01gqt@enews1.newsguy.com...
>> > Yes. I am running two of those drives with a superdrive card now.
>> >
>> > "Locutus" <locutus@locutus.org> wrote in message
>> > 040220021321560312%locutus@locutus.org">news:040220021321560312%locutus@locutus.org...
>> >
>> > >    So let me get this straight.  If I go and by a Sony Macintosh 3 1/2
>> > > mech and put it in an Apple 3 1/2 case (those for the Apple GS) and got
>> > > a Surperdrive card, I will have a 1.4mb floppy drive for my IIgs?

IIRC, MUG does not support long file names, so another option would
be to use one of the software packages that adds HFS file system
capabilities to Windows or MS-DOS.  That way you can preserve more
of the filenames by using HFS for the transfers.


-michael

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