Re: 1.4M drive in a 800K case

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

> I've been using that conversion for quite a few years. Without a
> superdrive
> card the IIgs normally sees it as just a regular 800k drive.

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.

> 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 ?

thanks Wayne,

Mark