Apple IIGS noob advice

[Tempest]

My understanding of the matter is that high-density drives use a higher power magnetic flux to write to the disk, which a double-density drive might not be able to overwrite... or something to that effect.

In theory, if you had unformatted high-density disks, and you only ever used them in a double-density drive, it might work perfectly fine... but most disks were sold preformatted, so I'm not sure how hard it would be to find such disks.

--Zero

Yeah there's something with the coating on the disk itself that makes them unreliable when formatted to double density. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't and they tend to die quickly.

Tempest

[esquire]

So which route did you go? I am doing the same thing here with a IIgs, and am thinking of going either CF route, or ADTPro route. I have an old Power PC 5260, but I can't seem to get it to link to my network to transfer files or even get on the internet, so that route does not seem like an option for the time.

[Jorpho]

I have an old Power PC 5260, but I can't seem to get it to link to my network to transfer files or even get on the internet, so that route does not seem like an option for the time.

Yes indeed, the 5260 is an utter piece of crap.
http://lowendmac.com/roadapples/x200.shtml

What kind of network are you trying to link it to? When one of those passed through my hands, I managed to get files off it by linking its parallel port directly to another Mac.

[Soviet Conscript]

So which route did you go? I am doing the same thing here with a IIgs, and am thinking of going either CF route, or ADTPro route. I have an old Power PC 5260, but I can't seem to get it to link to my network to transfer files or even get on the internet, so that route does not seem like an option for the time.

i'm still OSless myself. lacking any kind of mac with internet abilities i havn't been able to attempt the disks route. i also havn't felt like paying $15 for copies on ebay. atm i'm just waiting for the new batch of CF interface things to come out and just use that as a HD with gs/os on it.

[esquire]

You'd think maybe someone here would offer to copy the OS for you.

There are other CF micro drive makers out there. Check these guys out:

http://www.reactivemicro.com/index.php?cPath=1_36

[Soviet Conscript]

You'd think maybe someone here would offer to copy the OS for you.

There are other CF micro drive makers out there. Check these guys out:

http://www.reactivemicro.com/index.php?cPath=1_36

neat link. suprised i didn't wonder upon it when i was looking for this stuff earlier, thanks