Made me curious. Got out my 128k Mac for first time in about 18 months I think and plugged an 800k drive into the floppy port. Put a 400k disk into it and booted off it.
Then I tried formatting a disk in the 800k drive but no go.
I thought maybe it's the drive and when I grabbed another, I accidentally grabbed a Superdrive. It won't read any disk or successfully format one.
Got out anther 800k drive and it also won't format a disk. Moved my system disk to it and formatted on the internal 400k. Afterward I could move the formatted floppy back to the 800k drive where I could read and write to it.
I've used Superdrives on Macs and Apple IIs in place of 800k drives and they were always seen as 800k drives. Finally found an exception. I'll have to make sure I don't upgrade all my external 800k drives.
Then I tried formatting a disk in the 800k drive but no go.
I thought maybe it's the drive and when I grabbed another, I accidentally grabbed a Superdrive. It won't read any disk or successfully format one.
Got out anther 800k drive and it also won't format a disk. Moved my system disk to it and formatted on the internal 400k. Afterward I could move the formatted floppy back to the 800k drive where I could read and write to it.
I've used Superdrives on Macs and Apple IIs in place of 800k drives and they were always seen as 800k drives. Finally found an exception. I'll have to make sure I don't upgrade all my external 800k drives.