Re: SuperDrives...

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Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "DP" == David Phillips <David_Phillips@nexus.amaq.org.au> writes:
>
> DP> Sorry this wont work if it did their would be a lot of IIGS's
> DP> with super drives..it has something to do with the internal ROM i
> DP> believe.. I have 2 Super drives but they are connected to a super
> DP> drive card which is in the IIGS slot
>
> DP> on the Early Macs to do this involves a ROM? change if you put a
> DP> 1.44 in the bay it will read like a 800k
>
>I also thought you needed a SIWM (Super Intergrated Woz Machine).
>
>If the IWM in the gs could physically talk to the drives, then a
>software only solution would work (or a ROM solution to boot).
>However, I think the GS only has a IWM, like the IIc+ and SE.

Applied Engineering sold a clone of the SuperDrive that
came with a driver.  With it, and using only the IIGS drive
port, you could get a high density 1.6MB GCR format.

The driver was keyed to recognize only AE brand drives.