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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: AE 1.6 MB 3.5" drive
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Date: 18 Nov 90 06:03:07 GMT
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In article <13938@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> rankins@argentina.crd.ge.com (raymond r rankins) writes:
>Does anyone have an info on the new 1.6MB 3.5 in disk drive from
>Applied Engineering?  Mostly I'm interested in how they did it.  I
>thought it wasn't possible to hook a high density drive to the GS
>port, something to do with the SmartPort interface chip (or we would
>have been able to put Mac 1.44 MB drives on it)?  Did they do it with
>hardware hacking or a new 3.5 driver?  How compatible is it?

Maybe they made the SmartPort think it was a REALLY SMALL Profile.
Clearly, the drive must be 'smarter' than an Apple FDHD, which expects to
see low level info (motor on/off, phase 0,1,2,3,4,??? on/off, read, write)
from the disk controller.
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