High density disks on double density drives

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sat Sep 19 15:36:37 1998

> I have the Apple
> SuperDrive which can read/write high density disks except I don't
> have the SuperDrive controller for the //gs. Thus I'm stuck with the
> 800k format. Could I still use high density disks in this drive
> without problems?

No. When the drive is accessing 800k disks, which are effectively double
density, though they actually use GCR, it uses write current that
is suitable for double density media. High density media is only suitable
for use in 1.44M format.

Using the wrong kind of media sometimes seems to work, but the data will
be much more susceptible to error.
Received on Sat Sep 19 1998 - 15:36:37 BST