Re: 3.5 drive on IIe question

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

Matt Jenkins wrote in message <393604B2.A8A6FF3F@pacific.net.au>...
>Ernest wrote:
>
>> I was told that the drive was designed for the IIgs but that it would
work
>> on a IIe.
>
>Well, the drive is designed for IIgs/Mac, but it will work on a IIc+
>also. To make it
>work on the IIe you need the later 3.5" controller card, sometimes
>called the SuperDrive
>Controller card. They're easy to spot: they're much bigger than the old
>one, have a 65c02
>processor on the board, an LED, and don't have LIRON printed on the
>back.
>
>The card you have, is designed to run a UniDisk 3.5" drive, which are
>harder to find than
>AppleDisk 3.5"'s (Although interestingly went I first went looking I
>found 2 UniDisks and
>no AppleDisks), and are stark white in colour like the original IIc.
>Also, the eject button
>is much thinner and located about the manual eject hole, rather than
>like the AppleDisk where
>there's a fatter eject button with the manual eject hole in the middle
>of it.
>
>Hope you find one; 3.5" drives make IIe's much more fun.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Matt

Would you be interested in selling one of your Unidisk 3.5 drives?