Re: MultiMegabyte floppy for the II?

[Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@epost.de>]

Wayne Stewart schrieb:

> > It seems likely that a SuperDrive could read and write to
> > them, but I wonder whether they could be formatted as other
> > than FAT 12 floppies?

> I picked up one today and it apears to be a no go with the
> Apple II. I tried it on the IIgs in a SuperDrive and it was
> unable to read it. So I tried formatting it and I get
> an error. 

These adapters unterstand MFM format, but they cannot handle a
filesystem. They don't care for the position of the R/W head, from the
adapter's point of view there is only a continous data stream.

You can use them with any HD MFM drive (Mac, PC or Superdrive), but
you'll have to write a special driver for it.


Patrick