Re: apple disks in linux with fdutils

[Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca>]

justinhaynes@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> I got an Apple IIGS at a second hand store the other day for $3.93
> (amusing price no?) and a friend gave me a 3.5" apple drive to use with
> it.  We've downloaded the disk images for the OS.  Now we need to get
> them on a set of disks.
> 
> I found some similar posts about reading and writing apple disks in
> other machines/ platforms, but I couldn't find what I was looking for.
> 
> fdutils on linux can make a disk that has any number of tracks and
> sectors physically possible for the drive/ interleaved or non
> interleaved.  Its really a nice package.
> 
> you can format a regular HD floppy with your standard NEC 3.5 floppy
> drive for up to 1960k.
> 
> So my question is:
> 
> 1) What are the specifications for the floppy disk format used with the
> apple IIGS on these old 3.5" drives

	800K standard, 1.44Mb with a Superdrive and card, 1.6Mb with AEHD
floppy and driver.

> 2) are there any real physical differences in the way these disk drives
> deal with disks compared to drives you would find elsewhere, and where
> can I read about these differences

	I don't know for certain. I suspect the 800K and 1.6Mb formats are not
readible by PC floppies.

> 3) Does anyone know where I can find these kinds of standards
> generally?  I tried IEEE, but couldn't find anything.


	This is the only place I can think of.
> Thanks much,
> 
> Justin
> 
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> Before you buy.

				Later
				Mike




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