Re: PCT, low-density disks, and Apple 3.5 drives

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Bruce Maples (themaples@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: Just a question --

: If PC disks are MFM, and Apple disks are GCR, then how does the PC
: Transporter use an Apple 3.5 drive to read and write low-density
: (720k) disks?

By using its own drive controlling routines.  And btw, I think the PCT
uses another drive, not the Apple 3.5.

: And, if the Apple 3.5 can be used to read PC 720k disks, would it be
: possible to write a utility on the PC to write 800k ProDOS disks?  Why
: or why not?

It's likely that the PC also puts its drive routines into the hardware,
so without special hardware with specialized routines, no.

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