Does it work the other way? I have a Mac Plus, and it seems to be able
to format a 1.44Mb disk sot that it can read it, but then none of my
other macs (IIsi, G3 minitower) will read it, and if I format the
disks on the newer macs, the Plus won't read them.
-Cyrus
On Feb 10, 5:06 pm, Derek Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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