Re: SuperDrives...

[David Phillips <David_Phillips@nexus.amaq.org.au>]

Sorry this wont work if it did their would be a lot of IIGS's with super
drives..it has something to do with the internal ROM i believe.. I have 2
Super drives but they are connected to a super drive card which is in the
IIGS slot

on the Early Macs to do this involves a ROM? change if you put a 1.44 in
the bay it will read like a 800k

>....But if you hooked the then internalized SuperDrive into the 800k logic

>as you say, the computer still won't be able to see 1.44meg diskies,
right?
>Wouldn't you have to have some sort of new hardware driver/controller to 
>interpret as more than an 800k drive?  Don't tell me all this time I could
>just plop my Mac LC superdrive into one of my Apple 3.5 800k drives and 
>I could be booting off a 1.44disk instead of 800k

David_Phillips
Vice President
Apple Macintosh Assoc. Queendland
Australia