Re: Apple2 disk controller questions

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <19990512044938.14706.00000065@ng-fk1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> What I don't understand is the high density 3.5" Apple II
> format.  Like the Mac, high density 3.5" Apple II disks are
> 1.44MB MFM.  However, there is a special 1.6MB GCR
> format that is used by AE's driver for the IIGS.  I'm not
> sure how the AE driver squishes those extra few kilobytes
> into the disk.

Is that 1.6 MB or 1600 KB?  I know it's 1440 KB and not 1.44 MB.  One
should not mix 1024 and 1000 multipliers like a marketroid does.

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