Re: GS/OS 6 (System 6) Where to get it -- update

[merlancia@aol.com (MERLANCIA)]

There is another drive out there. Unfortunatly, though it can read/write to
720k PC Disks, it CANNOT read/write to 800k Mac/ProDOS Disks.
I wish developers woulfd get the hint! ;)
We NEED 800k!
I wonder if someone will write a driver for 400k disks.
Or better yet, how about the Lisa Driver that is comming out?!!
If DiskCopy Images are readable on the //gs, I will post them, uncompressed, to
my server.

Regards,
 REAC
Merlancia@aol.com
www.merlancia.com


>Subject: Re: GS/OS 6 (System 6) Where to get it -- update
>From: greg@apple2.com
>Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 6:54 AM
>Message-id: <greg-1204990854260001@192.168.0.4>
>
>In article <37102A8C.F82BD991@worldnet.att.net>,
>MarshaJ@AOL.com wrote:
>>greg@apple2.com wrote:
>
>>> This is bad, especially due to the fact that 800 KB drives with which
>to
>>> turn the images into disks are becoming more and more difficult to
>>> obtain.  (SuperDisk drives can't read 800 KB disks, and I haven't seen
>any
>>> other 3.5" drives available for me to use on my new G3's USB.)
>
>> The Mac8100 I have seems to read and write 800K disks fine. The trick
>is
>> the disks have to be 720K/800K disks, they cannot be 1.4M (with the second
>> square opening).
>
>I know about that.  I've used 5.25" write protect tabs to cover up the HD
>hole on disks that were formatted 800 KB on older drives.
>
>You missed the point that _SuperDisk_ drives can't read 800 KB disks AT
>ALL.  They don't support them.  I have yet to discover if there are any
>USB 3.5" disk drives that aren't SuperDisk drives.  The drive on a Mac
>8100 is not a SuperDisk drive.
>
>Meanwhile, 400 KB ProDOS disks lost access under Mac OS at the same time
>as MFS disks, meaning you can't use an original Copy II Plus 3.5" disk
>with Bernie unless you roll back to an earlier version of the Mac OS. 
>(No, 400 KB 3.5" disks (single sided) aren't compatible with SuperDisk
>drives either.)  I don't even know if the current version of Bernie will
>even work under a sufficiently old Mac OS.
>
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