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On Sep 5, 7:09*am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/04/2010 11:58 AM, Wayne Stewart wrote:
>
> > AE made a number of different 3.5" drives. I have one of the AE 1.6mb
> > drives, AE 800k drives and one of the AE Macintosh HD drives. They're
> > packed away so I can't check the markings on them. I may well be wrong
> > but it seems to me that the IIGS 1.6mb drives were marked AEHD and the
> > Mac ones were HD+. The Mac one was meant to connect to an early Mac
> > that only had 800k drives and with a special driver r/w 1.4mb disks on
> > their drive.
>
> > With the installed GSOS driver I was able to format 1.6mb floppies. I
> > only used it briefly as having only the single drive I worried that
> > should the drive fail, I'd have a pile of unreadable floppies. Also
> > having a superdrive card pretty much eliminated any need for it.
>
> The AE 1.6mb drive could do extended density using the built-in GS controller?
> * Didn't realize that.

I get the extended density idea, I have installed the driver, but
there seems to be no way of formatting the disks in this extended
density. It could be that I have the Mac version as it is marked AEHD+
on the front of the drive.

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