Re: Three GS questions

["Mark Piazza" <piazza@servtech.com>]

Also, don't forget that PowerPC's (the PowerMac series) have flaky disk
drives.  I once formatted seven disks on a PowerPC only to find out that
they would not work on my IIgs.
Might be worth it to at least try and read it when formatted on a regular
68k Mac.

Though, I totally believe that Nathan is correct.
--Mark

Nathan Mates wrote in message ...
>In article <6fcv87$a96$1@newacme.west.net>, Joe Seeley <joe@smoe.com>
wrote:


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>>2) I have a regular 3.5 as well as an AE HD 3.5.  I took a HD 3.5 and
>>formatted it as a 1600k floppy.  I tried to read it on a PowerPC at work
but
>>not luck.  That didn't surprise me considering they only go up to 1.44 so
I
>>formatted it (as well as several other floppies) from the PowerPC as a
1.44
>>ProDOS disk.  They even had the "II" icon when I put them in the PowerPC.
>>However, I took them back to the IIGS and no go.  Am I doing something
wrong
>>or is the AE HD not able to handle these 1.44 ProDOS floppies?
>
>   To use the AE HD 3.5" drive as a 1.44MB drive, you must use it with
>the (somewhat rare) Apple superdrive card. AE's semi-proprietary 1600K
>format was usable over the default floppy port, but 1.44MB's
>out. You'll probably have to drop back to 800K disks for now.
>
>Nathan Mates