Re: SCSI LS-120 Superdisk drive on an Apple IIGS

[bill malcolm <wm65805@alltel.net>]

I think it is because of the FST thing --  needs a driver.
bill ..



Herbert Fung wrote:

> OK, today I made time to test a SCSI LS-120 Superdisk drive on an
> Apple IIGS, running System 6.01 with the MS-DOS and HFS FST's
> installed.
>
> Hardware used:
>
> Apple IIGS ROM 01
> 4MB RAM
> Apple High Speed SCSI card
> SCSI LS-120 Superdisk drive
> CFFS with 128MB
> 15MHz TWGS 32k cache with 1.8S firmware
>
> Here's what I found:
>
> 720k MS-DOS disk reads fine
> 1.44 MS-DOS disk reads fine
> 120MB MS-DOS disk fails to mount
>
> 800k ProDOS disk fails to mount
>
> 1.44 HFS disk fails to mount
>
> I didn't have any unformatted disks so I couldn't try one, but I did
> try to re-format the MS-DOS disks that did mount. With both the double
> density and high density disks, attempts at re-formatting failed.
>
> In each attempt, the disk formatting dialog box only offered 1MB
> volumes. The only variations is the interleave 1:1 or 1:2, and the
> file systems, HFS or ProDOS. I tried every selection and the
> formatting failed. Of course a double sided density disk can't
> possibly be formatted to 1MB so I presume this is one of the reasons
> it failed, but I can't figure out why the high density disks didn't
> work.
>
> So those who want to try to use an LS-120 drive, only the SCSI version
> works, but only for reading MS-DOS formatted disks, and even then,
> only double density and high density disks, not the 120MB disks.