Re: Cannot write to 5.25" disks from 6.0.1 Finder

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
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: In <QeqdnXJrqZhuw4rfRVn-ug@comcast.com> Bill Garber wrote:
: >
: > "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
: > 20050219230655629+1300@News.Individual.NET">news:20050219230655629+1300@News.Individual.NET...
: >
: >: Do you have the Apple SuperDrive controller card installed? If you're
: >: running a 1.4MB drive from the built-in disk drive port it can only
: >: be used as an 800KB drive.
: >
: > I was under the impression that the AEHD3.5 driver allowed it to work
: > as a 1.44 MB drive even on the SmartPort. I have one but have yet to
: > try this theory.
:
: Applied Engineering used to make a high density drive that had a
: capacity of 1.6MB. This worked off the normal IIGS drive port, as an
: 800KB drive with the normal Apple driver, or as a 1.6MB drive with the
: AE driver. Unfortunately this meant you couldn't boot from a 1.6MB disk.

I knew there was something like that. Just couldn't remember
if it was the AEHD or not.

: Later they just made 1.4MB drives, probably once Apple released the
: SuperDrive for the Apple II.

Therefore it is possible that in the actual scheme of things,
that someone has one of these drives. Maybe I do, maybe this
other person.  :o)

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