1 Dec
2005
1 Dec
'05
3:30 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/30/2005 at 5:07 PM der Mouse wrote:
Well, to be fair, it's the *controller* you should be blaming and not the
drive. I'm sure floppy drive technology hasn't changed in 15 years, but the
controllers and software support sure has.
For the record: It is impossible to write 800K mac floppies (and 880K Amiga
disks) if you have a traditional NEC-based floppy controller. Through extreme
clever trickery you can *READ* Amiga 880K disks (Disk2FDI), but so far nobody
has been able to read Mac 800K disks.
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...for example, it may be that "modern"
floppy drives are capable of
things that drives current when the gadget was produced aren't.
I've actually found somewhat the reverse to be true, at least as far as
floppy drives go. Or am I missing something when I don't succeed in
reading an 800K Mac floppy in my nice shiny new USB drive?