Re: Apple IIe 5.25 to 3.5 disks problems

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Sounds like a drive failure to me.

The logical next question is whether a known "good" 3-1/2" drive has been
tried.


>Subj: Apple IIE query
>Date: 7/26/00 10:51:19 AM Central Daylight Time
>From: drg
>To: a2mg@aol.com
>
>I'm experiencing difficulty getting my IIE to write from my 5 1/4"
>floppy drive to my 3 1/2" drive.  I've tried
>everything I can think of to resolve this problem, but nothing has
>worked.  The IIE has a dual drive 5 1/4" floppy drive card and will
>write  from one 5 1/4 drive to another without difficulty.  It will
>even write to the IIE ram in slot 7, yet, continually, I receive an
>I/O error when I try to copy files from my 5 1/4" drive to my 3 1/2"
>drive.  The IIE can catalog and read the 3 1/2" drive, but it will
>not copy files to or from it.