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Re: SuperDrives...

In article <6t2onc$jqf$2@haus.efn.org>, saturna@garcia.efn.org (Kevin
Saturna) wrote:

> ...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.
> 
> Is it really that simple?  Has anyone done this?

No, it's not.  You'll still need the new controller card.

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