On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 02:12 am, Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today I picked up the iomega floptical. It works exactly like it is > supposed. It allows a plus to read and write high density floppies. > Cool. It won't read and write mac formatted double density diskettes > though. Big deal. The internal diskdrive and the normal external > floppy will. > I got the floptical in its original box with the original software > diskette, iomega scsi cable and power supply. > In combination with the accesspc or dosmounter control panel it also > enables me to read and write dos formatted disks. > Both the FAQ and LEM claim that the Applied Engeneering HD+ is the > only floppy drive enabling the plus to read high density disks.. It's > pretty obvious now this is not true. The ability to read HD (1.4Mb) HFS floppy disks on a floptical drive has long been FAQed in the Apple II world so I guess that the Mac FAQers have committed an oversight. As you say, it is unsurprising that you are unable to bot from a 1.4Mb floppy but have you tried booting from a 21Mb floptical which is the "native" media for the drive? Bob Brant's book about building your on Mac mentions two other 1.4Mb drives, the Kennect Drive 2.4 and PLI TurboFloppy 1.4. Is the PLI drive the device somebody mentioned in an earlier posting on the list? Has anyone seen a Kennect Drive 2.4? Phil --- http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/ -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
