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

[mkelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu]

In article <19980304062800.BAA25312@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
	supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
> mkelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu wrote:
> 
> (snipped portion which says you have a IIGS)

Sadly, I do not.  I have a //e =)

> Why not just format 1.44MB on the PC and "erase" the disk in the GS
> Finder.  That will give you 1.44MB free for ProDOS use.  Ditto for 720K
> format erased in the GS Finder giving you 800K.

Apple II Desktop 1.1 doesn't allow for block specifications.  What I 
format is dependent on the floppy media.  If it is a DD it is formmatted
as 800k, if it is HD it goes as 1.44MB.  If I insert a PC 720k and
format, it turns into an 800k.  If I copy bocks from the 800k onto the 
720k and then "delete" as opposed to format, the disk will become a
720k Apple II ProDOS formatted disk!  Just a useless fact.

> With the MS-DOS FST and the MUG! NDA, you can do this already
> from the GS Finder.

Again, I don't have a GS.

-/\/\ichael-

replyto: mkelsey at eecs.wsu.edu