Re: corrupted floppies

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>Warning...the Apple IIGS/Macintosh 800k double density Apple 3.5
>drive CAN'T read the 720k PC format.  That's your problem.  The only
>Apple drive that can read this format is the SuperDrive.  If you want
>to go this way, you'll need a SuperDrive for your GS (or BlueDisk or
>Floptical or SuperDisk connected to TurboMicrodrive IDE Filecard).

    Not quite. The actually floppy drive is not the limitation, it 
is the controller on the computer end. For example, if you connect
a platinum Apple 3.5 directly to a PC-Transporter card, it can be
made to read and write to MFM 720K MS-DOS floppies. In the case of
the PCT however, it is better at reading than writing/formatting.

    Of course if you connect an Apple 3.5 up to an SuperDrive card,
it will still be limited to only accessing GCR (400K/800K floppies).
I believe you can even have an IBM 3.5 drive read GCR, if you have
a special (rare) controller card.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca