Re: msdos 3.5" disks with apple 3.5" drives

[chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (David Chiu)]

In article <qPqVyB4w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung) writes:
>Previously David Empson wrote:

>>Not with standard 3.5" drives, which can't handle the MFM recording
>>format.  You need a SuperDrive and the SuperDrive controller card, or
>>a PC Transporter with an Apple 3.5" drive.

>I believe you are incorrect about the Apple 3.5 drive not being able to
>read and write to MS-DOS disks. I have used them successfuly with a
>PCTransporter and my Mac Classic. These are the regular 800K drives.

If I remember correctly, some owners of PC Transporter complained that at
times 720k disks formatted by PCT cannot be read on generic IBM clones.

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>Herbert Fung              herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca