Re: 1.4M drive in a 800K case

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

It is then trying to double the 800K multispin format rather
than use the MFM 1.44 Meg format type.  On the PC,
you can format a 1.44 meg larger (1.68M) because Microsoft
used to do that for a copy protection scheme on some
of their software like MS Office.  It also cut down on the
number of disk they needed to distribute with Office.

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"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message
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> Mark Cummings wrote
>
> > I assume you'd have to maintain the daisychain board to connect
everything
> > up ?. Rhetorical question, because I can't see any other way that it'd
work.
>
> Yes, it's just a drive mech swap, the daisy-chain board is needed.
>
> > > Interestingly
> > > if you install the AEHD driver it can tell DD from HD floppies in this
> > > drive. Wants to format the HD ones 1.6mb, which it can't.
> >
> > cool, but useless. obviously a smartport issue, therefore requiring a
> > superdrive controller to work properly ?. Do you get other options, like
> > 800K. Reason I ask is that I have a couple of 1.4MB floppys (backed up
of
> > course) which may be used but are 800K format. I don't want to stick
> > anything over the hole. Also I assume you only get this option with the
AEHD
> > driver ?
>
> With the superdrive card and the AEHD driver you only get a choice of
1.4mb
> and 800k with any disk but it won't actually try the inappropriate one.
>
> If you have a superdrive on the smartport and the AEHD driver with an 800k
> floppy you get a choice of formatting it 800k or 400k. With a HD floppy
you
> only get a choice of 1600k which the computer'll try but can't do. If you
> have an AE high density drive then that's a different story. However
unless
> you have 2 of those drives I'd be leary of puting much on 1.6mb disks as
> there's nothing else that'll read them. Sure would have been nice for the
> Apple IIers if apple had gone with the 1.6mb format.
>
> Yes, the standard 3.5" driver thinks everything is a 800k floppy.
>
> Wayne