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  • Re: SuperDrive compatibility

    From mjmahon@mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 07, 2003 06:24:03
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    Wayne Stewart asked:

    A fair while back I converted most of my 3.5" drives to SuperDrives
    but I left a few in case I should someday run across a program that
    was incompatible. I mean incompatible with a SuperDrive acting as
    an 800k drive connected to a IIgs disk port. Anyone know of any
    such programs?

    Apparently nibble editors are one such class--the Copy II Plus
    3.5" bit copy won't work with Superdrives.

    -michael

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  • From Peter Watson@paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 07, 2003 13:44:33
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    "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message news:20030707022403.23433.00000238@mb-m23.aol.com...
    Apparently nibble editors are one such class--the Copy II Plus
    3.5" bit copy won't work with Superdrives.

    Won't work with SuperDrives, or won't work with the SuperDrive controller?

    My (possibly flawed) understanding was that a SuperDrive plugged into a IIgs port was physically indistinguishable from an 800K drive.
    --
    Peter Watson
    -- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
    -- Impossible! ;-)



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  • From mjmahon@mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 07, 2003 17:02:34
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    Peter Watson wrote:

    "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message >news:20030707022403.23433.00000238@mb-m23.aol.com...
    Apparently nibble editors are one such class--the Copy II Plus
    3.5" bit copy won't work with Superdrives.

    Won't work with SuperDrives, or won't work with the SuperDrive controller?

    My (possibly flawed) understanding was that a SuperDrive plugged into a IIgs >port was physically indistinguishable from an 800K drive.

    You are, of course, correct!

    It's the controller that prevents direct access to the drive signals.

    -michael

    Check out amazing quality 8-bit Apple sound on my
    Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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  • From Tim Haynes@timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 07, 2003 22:07:49
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    "Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message news:WO5Oa.58196$Mc4.7703244@news0.telusplanet.net...
    A fair while back I converted most of my 3.5" drives to SuperDrives
    but I left a few in case I should someday run across a program that
    was incompatible. I mean incompatible with a SuperDrive acting as
    an 800k drive connected to a IIgs disk port. Anyone know of any
    such programs?

    Wayne

    I had some problems with FTA demos trying to access a Pascal boot program
    that was overwritten by the SuperDrive controller (or something). End
    result was that trying to boot FTA stuff resulted in getting a test program
    for the SuperDrive instead of, say, Modulae. :-)

    Cheers
    Tim


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  • From Wayne Stewart@waynes@telus.dotnet to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 20:29:39
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    Peter Watson wrote:
    "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message news:20030707022403.23433.00000238@mb-m23.aol.com...

    Apparently nibble editors are one such class--the Copy II Plus
    3.5" bit copy won't work with Superdrives.


    Won't work with SuperDrives, or won't work with the SuperDrive controller?

    My (possibly flawed) understanding was that a SuperDrive plugged into a IIgs port was physically indistinguishable from an 800K drive.
    --
    Peter Watson
    -- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
    -- Impossible! ;-)

    I was wondering how indistinguishable it is. The only software I can
    think of that knows there's anything other than an 800k drive attached
    is the AEHD driver.

    Wayne

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