Re: IIgs and 3.5 DS/DD Preformatted IBM compatibles

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

My experience (limited) with 3.5" disks indicates that HD disks work fine
when formatted to 800k, but be careful.  If you format an HD disk as 800k
HFS then try to use it in a SuperDrive, the drive will try to read it as
HD, and will complain that the disk is unreadable.  Found this out with a
Mac SE with both an 800k drive and an FDHD.  Fortunately, the solution to
this problem is really simple.  Find one of those hundreds of sheets of
write-protect labels you've got with your old 5.25" disks, and put one
over the "extra" hole in the HD disk.  Then the FDHD will quit complaining
and quite happily read the disk as 800k.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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