Re: apple ][gs 1.44 superdrive

[yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie Yeo)]

Greg Berigan (gberigan@cse.unl.edu) wrote:

: Could it be the AE ones advertised a 1600K capacity while the Apple ones
: advertised a 1.44 MB capacity?  I wondered about that at the time.
: Should I go with the PC capacity or the bigger capacity?  Ended up I got
: neither one and instead got more memory which I used as a 1600K RAMdisk
: for my then BBS.

	If I recall, the AE ones do not need the SuperDrive Controller 
card for 1.44Mb format. It requires only a special driver placed in the 
System Folder to churn the 1.44Mb capacity (It does not allow any other to 
do the same though, i.e. Apple's SuperDrive or AMD's (?) 1.44Mb drive).

	The downside is, you cannot boot up a 1.44Mb disk on the AE drive 
upon startup/cold boot/warm boot. The GS/OS with the driver must be booted 
up in order to use 1.44Mb. You can use a SuperDrive Controller Card with 
the 1.44Mb drives to bootup a high density disk though.

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