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- From: cranem@edsi.plexus.COM (Mike Crane)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: FDHD card and drive
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.181158.23280@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:11:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Aug20.181158.23280
- References: <1992Aug14.185448.434@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug15.100902.6217@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
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- 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?
-
- I don't know about *any* of them, but I *do* know it works just fine
- with the AE HD floppy drive.
-
- >(2) Will it read existing 800K ProDOS disks?
-
- Yep. The drive will read and write 800K and 1.44MB ProDOS disks.
-
- >(3) WIll it read existing 800K HFS disks?
-
- Yep. The drive will read and write 800K and 1.44MB HFS disks.
- >(4) Will it read existing 720K IBM disks (perhaps via MS-DOS FST)?
-
- It *should* be able to read both 720K and 1.44MB IBM disks with the
- MS-DOS FST. I *know* it will when used with either of the two available
- utilities (one is an 8-bit application program, the other is a set of
- three 16-bit shell commands: mcopy, mdir, mtype).
-
- I eagerly await the introduction of a read *and* write MS-DOS FST so
- that I can transparently move data between work and home.
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