Re: AE HD+ driver

[me2@nowhere.org (Bart)]

Thanks Uh, in the mean time I found it!  the driver is on the floppy that 
comes with a Sirrus Ram card from Alltech (With a thank you to Tony Diaz for 
including it) but alas in my case it won't work :(  

In answer to what it is: The AE HD+ is a Applied Engineering 3.5 Floppy that 
was made briefly.  It is similar to their standard 3.5 clone only with 1 MAJOR 
difference: It supports 800k AND 1600k  disks.  Yes, 1600k.  This is 
accomplished via a special format they developed (its GCR not MFM) and the 
interaction of a GS/OS driver and a special EPROM they programmed for the 
logicboard of the drive.  My drive was recently aquired from Goodwill with the 
case slightly wraped out on 1 side, non working and with a wire hanging loose 
so, I took it apart.  I plugged back in the wire, blew out the crud with 
canned air and found...  The reason it was warped  and messed up was someone 
had been in here before and...took the EPROM.  dang it! 
I therefore seem to have a standard 800k AE drive with a cool looking case 
marked AEHD+  So it goes.....

-Bart

In article <3C0D336F.4020405@digitalcivilization.ca>, 
mike@digitalcivilization.ca says...
>
>Bart wrote:
>
>> I have an AE HD+.  I have a driver called AEHD3.52  that does not seem to 
work 
>> with it or with anything really; the GS crashes during boot with this one 
in 
>> the drivers folder.  Is this the correct driver?  Is there another driver? 
 is 
>> my one a corrupt copy? 
>> -Bart
>> 
>> 
>
>        I take it this is a floppy drive. The "+" is throwing me. I have an 
AE HD 
>3.5 floppy. I might be able to supply you with a copy of the older 
>driver (assuming yours is newer). Due to a major harddrive problem over 
>a year ago it might take quite a while to get appropriate tools to help 
>you out. The problem is the possibility of the driver being in a forked 
>file.
>
>        Oddly enough, this might be a good thing for someone to put up on 
Asimov 
>and Ground. Nobody can be accused of piracy since the driver can only be 
>used if you already have the floppy and a non-functional driver. It 
>wouldn't make sense otherwise... :-)
>
>                                Later
>                                Mike
>
>
>
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