Re: Read //gs disks on Intel?

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

Professor Dredd (profdredd@yahoo.com) wrote: 

>In article <3A83410D.884A0B0@intergate.bc.ca>,
>  Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
>> It's not actually the newer Macs that can't handle 800k, it's the USB
>> floppy drives. The main problem is that t's a single speed drive like
>> PC floppy drives. As you're likely aware the Apple II and earlier
>> Macs used a variable speed drive to cram 800k instead of 720k
>> on a floppy.  When Apple went to high density drives they decided
>> on going with a more compatibleformatting so we have 1440k disks
>> instead of 1600k
>
>Okay, so what you're REALLY saying is:
>No provision is made for changing the frequency of the oscillator which
>clocks the data bits out to the write circuit.
>If that's what you mean, I think I understand  ;)

That would work if the head and analog circuitry would work 30%
faster than designed to.  That's what would be required to write and
read the outer zones of an 800K disk.  Apple elected instead to
keep the data rate constant and vary the rotational speed (which
actually comes closer to keeping the bit density constant, as well.)

<snip>
>Hey I've got a couple of those IIgs Workstation cards, but no software
>or documentation. Is there anywhere the software can be downloaded? Is
>there an detailed FAQ about the Workstation card somewhere?

They're //e cards--the IIgs can support Appletalk without adding a
card.

-michael

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