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Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer
- Subject: Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer
- From: Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>
- Date: 2000/08/03
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Verio
- References: <394F0452.D41@tirix.org> <sS_e5.9313$I76.570308@monger.newsread.com> <8ljps7$g1f$1@merope.saaf.se> <3987d621.61725482@news> <8m8snr$o5m$1@merope.saaf.se>
> However, what once made very good sense won't automatically make
> good sense forever. Today MFM disk controller chips are cheap, and
> MFM disks can store just about as much as GCR disks. So there's no
> longer any advantage in using GCR instead of MFM for floppy
> storage, but there is a disadvantage: the low-level
> incompatibility.
Actually they could hold more, it depends on the formatting routine.
There is software in Linux for this and years ago there was set of
utilities for the PC. It required a driver to bypass the BIOS
limitations though. IIRC, it managed 800k from the DD, 1.4 meg from
the 5.25 HD and 2 meg for 3.5 HD among others.
--
Thank you for your time and interest. I hope it was helpful
or at least interesting.
Phoenyx,
Apple2 user since March 1984
Links to Phoenyx's pages:
preferred..... http://zip.to/Phoenyx_A2
alternate..... http://www.tinyangeldesigns.com/Apple2