Re: Read //gs disks on Intel?

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Professor Dredd <profdredd@yahoo.com> writes:
>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 is one problem but the other is the lack of support for GCR in one of
these USB floppy drives. They will have an emebedded MFM controller which
is unable to read GCR disks at any frequency.

>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 are IIe Workstation cards (the //gs does not need one as it has the
hardware (Zilog serial chip) and firmware built in).

The software can be found in apple2ws.shk at ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/Comm/
according to google.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia