Mac floppy drive question - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Aug 1998

--- John Ruschmeyer wrote:
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  Mac 512k? Since the ROM only recognizes the
smaller-size drive, will it just
 ignore the top R/W head and work fine otherwise? 
Actually, IIRC, it will recognize the drive as double sided, *but* you will
still be limited to the old MFS format, rather than the newer HFS.

<<John>>
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I thought the old format went hand-in-hand with one-sided disks. So I could use 800k
floppies in MFS format? If so, then what was the point of the 512ke?

-- MB