Dylan, I am not sure where you got it that a superdrive is incapable of reading 800K disks, but it will. It will also read 400K disks... Support for MFS was dropped at some point, although I cannot recall what OS version (8?). As long as the disks are HFS (which they should be), you should be good to go.
Keep in mind that when the original "superdrive" floppy drives came out the Mac had only been around a few years and there were still plenty of people with 400K and 800K disks in use... Not to mention the extra cost of HD disks back then (the hole punch was my friend). Derek > I need a 800k 3.5" external disk drive for my > PowerMac 7100. The > only connection on these machines that seems viable for > such a device > is the SCSI port, but that dosn't really make sense for > such a slow > device. I definitely don't think one could use the > serial / printer > port. I have never seen an external disk drive for a > PowerMac. My > Apple IIe & GS have a special port just for external > floppy drives, > does anyone know if their is an adapter that makes these > compatible > with a Macintosh? This would be great, because I have > several of these > drives already. > > The reason I need this is because the 2MB internal drive > won't read > 800k disks, no Mac "superdrive" will. I never > understood this > limitation with Mac machines, as I come from a PC > background. This has > never been true of PC disk drives. I understand why it > won't work, > because of head alignment, I just don't understand why > this is not the > case in PC drives. Anyone know a way around this? I > don't think there > is one. > > Does anyone have a 800k 3.5" drive that will work with > a PowerMac 7100 > which they wouldn't mind selling for a reasonable > price? > > > Thanks, > Dylan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
