From: drlovemd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Steve Liu)
Subject: Re: Formatting more than 1440K - Possible???
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Applied Engineering used to sell a 3.5" disk drive for the Apple IIgs that
read and wrote 1.6 meg on a HD disk.  I wonder if the drive would work on a
mac, since I'm using my old 3.5" drive from my IIgs on my IIsi now.  Just a
thought.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.software
Subject: Re: Formatting more than 1440K - Possible???
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In article <C64J1n.Hpq@csulb.edu> sluh@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Masud) writes:
>A friend of mine who owns a pc said that he recently got a program that can
>format a disk that can exceed the normal capacity of a HD disk. Apparently it
>rewrites the driver or takes or the driver or _something_ that allows it get
>more space out of a normal HD floppy disk.  It supposedly gets upto 1.6 Megs
>(so something like 1640K?). I don't have the program - since I can't use it
>and its supposed to be called something like "FORM16" or something like that.
>
>My question is whether its possible to do this on the Mac and if its not
>possible is it due to hardware limitations. A developer friend of mine said
>that it might be possible but he doesn't deal with this aspect of the field
>much.
>
>Thanks for any information contributed.
>
>
>Steve
>
>
Applied Engineering used to sell a 3.5" disk drive for the Apple IIgs that
read and wrote 1.6 meg on a HD disk.  I wonder if the drive would work on a
mac, since I'm using my old 3.5" drive from my IIgs on my IIsi now.  Just a
thought.

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      |   | TTTTTT EEEEE VV     VV EEEEE     |
      |   |   TT   EE     VV   VV  EE        |
 /---/    |   TT   EEEE    VV VV   EEEE      | Steve Liu                    |
|         |   TT   EE       VVV    EE    ..  | drlovemd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu  |
|_________/   TT   EEEEE     V     EEEEE ..  | drlovemd@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu  |

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