Re: HD floppy on a IIgs?

[adm222@epguides-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (adm22)]

 > GUEST wrote:
 > I know that you need a special interface card to support a 1.44 MB
 > floppy drive on a IIe. Assuming I had a compatible drive, does the
 > IIgs Smartport support HD drives?
 > 
 > In other words, can I take a HD drive from a vintage Mac and use it
on
 > the IIgs? Can I format, read and write HD floppys with it? If so,
is
 > it possible to read/write MSDOS disks?

I beleive you can
also use HD discs by usinga floptical drive hooked up to a ramfast.
The floptical drive was one that used floppy sized discs that were 21
meg in size, real nice for backing up data. A friend of mine bought
one of these since it was cheaper than buying a HD drive and the
controler card. I recall we both went to upgrade our computers about
the same time and bought over $1000 of stuff each. The floptical
would not work with the Apple SCSI card that I had but the hard drive
I bought would so for me the HD drive and the controller was less than
a Ramfast and a floptical.