Re: Read PC 720k Floopy on Apple IIe?

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 6, 10:20 pm, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> My recollection is that the Superdrive card gets confused after you
> access a 720K disk in a Superdrive. If you subsequently try to format a
> double density disk as 800K, it actually formats it at 720K but the
> software doesn't know this happened so you get a bad disk. A similar
> problem happens if you try to format a 720K disk after accessing an 800K
> one.

That's my understanding too, but I have never needed to bother, since
my superdrive card has always had a superdrive attached.

I would recommend anyone who has one find a 1.44mb mechanism from a
Mac and swap it into their Apple 3.5" drive - that's what I did
instead of trying to souce a real superdrive, which are rather scarce.

Matt