Re: Can IIe bit-copy a Mac disk?

[paw@bbs.ausom.oz.au (Peter Watson)]

dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

[early part of post deleted]

>Copying IBM disks in this manner is a different story.  There are two
>routes here:
>
>(a) A PC Transporter with an Apple 3.5 Drive.  You must use MS-DOS
>based utilities to copy the disk (i.e. DISKCOPY).  IBM-format disks
>cannot be read from the Apple with this combination of drive and
>controller.

A PC-Transporter with a 3.5" TransDrive will also work from the MSDOS side.
It will only copy the first 360K from the ProDOS side.  :-(

>(b) SuperDrive with SuperDrive controller card, or Floptical drive
>with SCSI card.  An Apple-based block copy routine should be able to
>copy the disk.  Note that the SuperDrive card cannot format 720k
>disks, but can read and write them.  1.44MB disks are no problem.

A SuperDrive and Apple SuperDrive Controller Card most definitely *CAN*
format 720K disks!

Due to a bug in the card(?), the *first* attempt to format to 720K a disk
_previously_ formatted at 720K disk may fail. When retried, the format will
succeed.
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