Re: BlueDisk using 800k drives?

[tsetse@helix.net (tsetse)]

In article <4kcos7$63m@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>, Rob Thomson
<Rob.Thomson@vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

} Hi,
} Are any of you people out there using the BlueDisk controller to read/write
} 800k disks? What drive are you using? If you are using a PC drive then how
} does it do this? PC drives aren't supposed to read/write 800k disks are they?
} Could you get a PC to do the same if you wrote a program to do this? (Is there
} a program to do this?)

i have a blue disk with 2 pc style 3.5HD drives (epson brand, i believe,
1.44 meg)  i just tried a standard 800k prodos disk in them - unreadable.
the driver allows the following formatting: 
 800k   2:1
 720k   2:1
2880k   3:1   \  these 2 not supported by drive
2880k   2:1   /  generates gsos error # $27 when tried on dd disk
1600k   2:1
1440k   2:1

when i first got the card, i formated a disk at 1600k. this disk was
able, by just pushing it into the (hd) floppy drive, to crash every
mac computer at work. but the blue disk card didn't have any troubles.
presumeably a disk formated to 800k on the blue disk would behave
similarly.

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