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Floptical instead of SuperDrive?
In article <1gtecfINNhs7@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) writes:
>klo@sales.GBA.NYU.EDU (Worried) writes:
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>>If not, does that mean I must get a Superdrive controller card
>>AND the Superdrive, just to read HD Mac, MSDOS and GS/OS
>>disks?
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>You MUST have a real live SuperDrive to be able to make use of high density
>disks. The MS-DOS FST (from all accounts) will not work on anything less than
>a SuperDrive. The standard Apple 3.5 which was supplied with your IIgs will not
>cut it. Mac HFS (800K) is not a problem, of course.
I have my own question about this: Can one of those Floptical drives (720K,
1.44MB, 21MB) drives connected to a SCSI card work with the MS-DOS FST?
If it could, that would be great... Read all IBM, Mac, and of course my
Apple II disks as well as 21MB removable "cartridges". This sounds, to
me, like a much better cost:performance ratio than a SuperDrive and card.
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