Apple IIe 5.25 to 3.5 disks problems

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I received this request in e-mail, due to difficulties posting to this
newsgroup. Could somebody please help? Disks are located in an east coast, USA
state. Thank you.

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.

I've tried a couple of different systems with the same result. 
Initially I was using an LCIII with a IIE card.  The manual states 
that the 3 1/2" drive should plug directly into the Apple IIE card 
and that the 5 1/4" drive may then be daisy chained off of it.  This 
configuration was not successful, yet no matter what way I configured 
the drives, the IIE card did not allow the 5 1/4" drive to write to 
the 3 1/2" drive, though as I said, it could read the files on the 3 
1/2" drive and recognized the volume in the volume catalog.

I then located a IIE and tried this process again with the same 
result.  Every other function works properly.  I can convert the DOS 
files to PRO DOS, and can print the data as well.  I then tried to 
just upload the data to our G3 server, but couldn't get the IIE modem 
software to accept our dial-in number to make a connection.  I was 
hoping I'd be able to get it to accept our server IP address to 
upload this data as I need to get in a usable format.

Any assistance, or thoughts you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

DRG
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Beverly Cadieux 
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