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- From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
- Subject: Floptical instead of SuperDrive?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.195543.8266@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
- References: <33897@sales.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1gtecfINNhs7@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:55:43 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1gtecfINNhs7@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) writes:
- >klo@sales.GBA.NYU.EDU (Worried) writes:
- >
- >
- >>If not, does that mean I must get a Superdrive controller card
- >>AND the Superdrive, just to read HD Mac, MSDOS and GS/OS
- >>disks?
- >
- >You MUST have a real live SuperDrive to be able to make use of high density
- >disks. The MS-DOS FST (from all accounts) will not work on anything less than
- >a SuperDrive. The standard Apple 3.5 which was supplied with your IIgs will not
- >cut it. Mac HFS (800K) is not a problem, of course.
-
- I have my own question about this: Can one of those Floptical drives (720K,
- 1.44MB, 21MB) drives connected to a SCSI card work with the MS-DOS FST?
-
- If it could, that would be great... Read all IBM, Mac, and of course my
- Apple II disks as well as 21MB removable "cartridges". This sounds, to
- me, like a much better cost:performance ratio than a SuperDrive and card.
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- (__) Stupid Dan Quayle quote deleted, now that he's out of a job :-) (__)
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