Re: Apple II 3.5" Controller and SuperDrive problems...

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 7 Mar 1998 04:16:39 GMT, shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy
Shackelford) wrote:

>Jeff Blakeney (CUTjefbla@bconnex.net) wrote:
>
>: Are you sure about this?  It seems to me that if the disk isn't
>: initialized as a ProDOS disk, erasing it should give you an error.
>: Especially if you try to erase a 720k MFM disk into an 800k GCR.  It
>: just ain't gonna happen.
>
>Righto, that doesn't work.

I didn't think that would.  I don't think we have a program that
supports erasing a disk into a 720k ProDOS disk, but that might work
if we did have one.  Although, I'd much rather reformat them to use
800k anyways because 80k per disk makes a big difference.

>: I'm just curious as to whether you are indeed erasing an MS-DOS
>: formatted disk into a ProDOS disk because, as far as I know, it is
>: impossible.
>
>I wasn't aware that this would work until I tried it the other day. But it
>really does work for HD disks.

Well, that's cool.  That sure makes it quicker to turn MS-DOS
preformatted disks into ProDOS disks.

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