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

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>On 4 Mar 1998 05:08:35 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>If you can't get it to format even with Finder or other GS specific format
>>utilities, just buy pre-formatted Mac or PC floppies and use the Erase
>>option from the Finder.  It takes less than 1 second and gives you an
>>instant 1.44MB ProDOS disk.
>
>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.

You are right that you can't erase a 720K MFM disk into an 800K
GCR disk.  You can, however, erase a 1.44MB MFM disk into a
1.44MB MFM disk, which is what is happening with a ProDOS
erase of an MS-DOS disk.

>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.

It is possible and I do it all the time.  I have four boxes of Gold Seal
Quality Certified Premium 3.5" DS/HD Diskettes Formatted IBM
1.44MB that I use by erasing them to ProDOS of HFS.