Re: 1.4M drive in a 800K case

[waynes@intergate.ca (Wayne Stewart)]

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