Re: Mac Vintages and the ability to make ProDOS Disks...

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <0ci7t153c1f1eraonke5mk1lm1se26gqmr@4ax.com>,
 Mark Percival <mark@syndicomm.com> wrote:

> Warren Ernst wrote:
> 
> >Or more specifically, will the Quadra 650 I just found in my storage
> >facility be able to make ProDOS disks OK? Or must I revert back to my
> >IIfx (also in storage) for this task?
> 
> I believe that all Macs with built in floppy disk drives have the
> hardware to write to ProDOS floppy disks.  The issue with auto inject
> vs. manual inject floppy drives have to do with the latter type being
> unable to properly create 800K ProDOS formatted disk.  I use a Mac
> 7200/90 with its manual inject disk drive without any problems as long
> as the floppy disk I use was formatted first on an Apple II.

It's not the manual inject drive, I do believe it's the controller as I 
have a Quadra 650 with the manual inject drive and it (at least used to) 
make 800K ProDOS disks that would boot an Apple II time after time.  
This was through Mac OS 8.1.  It's still sitting around in case I need 
to use it for either writing 800K ProDOS disks or for running Appleshare 
over localtalk for my GS.

Greg B.

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