Re: High Density FD's

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <12SEP199718271433@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

[snip]

>>BlueDisk formatted high density disks can be accessed by SuperDrive
>>owning GS users, but its double-density format can't.  
>
>    Are you talking about 720K MFM disks? The SuperDrive can read
>400K, 720K, 800K and 1.44 MB formatted diskettes (GCR and MFM).

For all practical purposes, you can't access 400K disks on a IIgs. They are
all in MFS format, and the finder will tell you that the HFS FST doesn't
do MFS and makes you eject the disk if you try to use one. I suppose though
that you can format 400K ProDOS disks, but why do that?
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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