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- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: FDHD card and drive
- Message-ID: <71306@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 00:07:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.185448.434@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug15.100902.6217@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1992Aug15.100902.6217@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
- >I have seen a few posts about this thing, and I want to ask
- >a couple basic, direct questions:
- >
- >(1) Will it work with any FDHD Mac drive, or do you need the special
- > one that receently replaced the old Apple II 800K drive?
-
- It works with any Apple 3.5 drive that can read 1.44M disks--I don't
- know about 3rd-party drives.
-
- >(2) Will it read existing 800K ProDOS disks?
- >(3) WIll it read existing 800K HFS disks?
-
- Yes and Yes. To do anything useful with HFS disks, you want System 6
- on the GS, or 3rd-party software for the Apple IIe. (For 800K disks
- there is no need to have a SuperDrive...or even the card, if you have
- a GS.)
-
- >(4) Will it read existing 720K IBM disks (perhaps via MS-DOS FST)?
-
- Yes, the card+SuperDrive can read the blocks from 720K and 1.44M
- MS-DOS disks. To use the disks, you need software--like an MS-DOS
- FST (not available at this time) or 3rd-party software (I believe
- there is at least utility available, but I haven't used it).
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- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
- Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875
- Internet:dlyons@apple.com | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
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- My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
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