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Re: Reading apple disks on PC
- Subject: Re: Reading apple disks on PC
- From: "Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:04:16 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Charlie <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com> wrote in message
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>
> An Apple 3.5" (800K) drive is capable of reading/writing PC-format disks
(720K)
> but the Apple controller is not. I use an Applied Engineering PC
Transporter
> card with an Apple 3.5" drive attached to it. It works perfectly with
720K
> MS-DOS disks as long as they are formatted on a real PC. When using the
Apple
> 3.5" drive for ProDOS the speed is slower than if it was attached to the
Apple
> (SmartPort) controller.
>
> It is my understanding that Apple 5.25" drives cannot read/write MFM at
all.
>
> Charlie
I don't see why not - the Apple 5.25" drive is controlled entirely by
software. With a change to the software it should be able to read MFM disks
without difficulty.
Of course, saying that it is *possible* is very different than saying its
worth the time to do.
- Mike