Re: Question:Is the AE 3 1/2 HD drive hardware or software?

[mpearce@crl.com (Matthew Pearce)]

Locutus (locutus@ncinter.net) wrote:

:     I have this AE 800k drive.  I know AE offered an upgrade for theses
: drives so you can using HD disks.  I think you could format them at
: 1.6meg.  <You can't  use Mac disks though.  You still need Apple's
: SuperDrive card for that>.  

:    Anyways with AE no longer, was the upgrade software or was it
: hardware.  What makes me wonder is because this thing already looks to see
: if its a HD disk.  It won't let you format a HD disk at 800k. :/

:      -Locutus

The AE HD upgrade is hardware with a new 3.5 disk driver.  When I 
upgraded, I had to mail in my original drive & was shipped a new
one (clearly marked HD).

AE supplied a new 3.5 disk driver also.

M.P.
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