Re: Pascal 400kb Disk

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

> > I believe what everyone is missing here is this. These are 400K disks.
> > They are probably only written on one side. The Apple 3.5 drives
> > will only do double sided disks. 800k, am I wrong here? You need the
> > older Mac drive, the 400K single sided drive that was used on the
> > Mac 512's. Is this correct? I'm not altogether certain of what I'm
saying
> > but if I'm right then it may be impossible to copy those disks without
> > one of these drives, which are sometimes on eBay, although I've only
> > seen 2 in like 8 months. Maybe someone like AllTech has one lying
> > around. Just a thought.
>
> It may be the ... bad point ! I think that the GS think that the disk is
> double sided, but it's *not*. I never see under GS/OS or any thing else a
> 'single sided' option...
>
> More over, we try with a M0130 Apple Drive -that is, basically, a external
> single sided 400k drive from a 128k-, but the IIgs does not recognize it.

You may have to loan your drive and disks to someone with a Pascal adapter
card and IIe or lower to copy it to 5.25 - 140k or 3.5 - 800k.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com



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