>Well, OK. I didn't explicitly mention that they made floppies for the
>floppy port. Bu "exactly one", I meant "hard disks" to show that it
>wasn't commonly done.
Ah yes... beyond floppies, the Apple HD20 is the only other device by
ANYONE that I am aware of for the Mac floppy port (their might be other
stuff... I'm just not aware of them). But floppy drives were available
from a number of vendors.
>I do not
>recall if a FDHD drive will work, even at 800K, in a Mac that isn't
>expecting it. I have one FDHD SE and several 800K SEs; I suppose if
>I were ever curious enough, I could test the theory.
I don't think it could be done with Apple branded drives unless you had
the newer ROM that allowed the FDHD.
However, there were some 3rd party external drives that worked with 1.44
3.5 disks, and even with 5.25 and PC disks. And those worked with older
Macs (at least back to the Mac Plus, and I think as far back as the 512k
or kE). I think Dayna was an example of a company that made a high
density external drive for the Plus... and they had a model that had a
5.25 drive in the same case (only R/W pc format IIRC). But I assume such
drives had an init and didn't "just work".
I will be sure to test the AE drive I am getting from Dave tonight on my
Mac Plus to see if it could read a 1.44 disk.
-chris
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