Re: Trackstar can use IBM 360K floppy drives to R/W Apple disks?

["Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>]

Hmmm... Unfortunately my Trackstar is sitting inside of an IBM PS/2 model
55sx with just a 3.5-inch disk drive. And the 3.5-inch disk drive doesn't
connect to the Trackstar card. I don't have any means of testing what you've
read. What I'm using right now is an Apple Unidisk 5.25 Drive that is
connected directly to the Trackstar card.

--- Bryan

"Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote in message
news:Fmkz9.12093$Dl.7443@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> Looking at the Trackstar E manual, I read the following:
>
> "The Trackstar Disk Adapter Cable connects your Trackstar E to the 360k
> MS-DOS disk drive(s).  Its presence allows the 360k drives to read and
write
> Apple floppy diskettes.  This will in no way interfere with the operation
of
> the 360k dives(s) under MS-DOS."
>
> "Note: 1.2 Mb 5.25" disk drives cannot read Apple diskettes- even if they
> are capable of reading MS-DOS 360k software."
>
>
> Could some wise person explain this to me?  I thought, obviously
> incorrectly, that  MFM drives could not decode GCR encoded diskettes?  But
> is this untrue for 360k drives?  I'm confused.
>
>