Re: A2GS 1.44 " Drives

[Paul G <gavp@gis.net>]

Wow...never though 3.5" HD drive would be such a problem.  Though, I'm not
able to spend too much for a GS equipment since it's my little hobby aside
from a PC.  I kind of want to have GS/OS 5 or 6 on my A2GS but these prices
aren't reasonable.  I have a A2GS with ROM 3 onborad and with 2 megs of ram
+ 3.5" 800k Apple disk drive and 5.25 " IIc external drive.  What would be
the most cheapest solution ?


Supertimer wrote:

> CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:
>
> >Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
> >
> >>There's two ways you can do this. With an Apple II superdrive card
> >>you can use an Apple 1.44mb drive to read Apple & Mac 1.44mb
> >>and 800k floppies as well as PC 1.44 & 720k disks.
> >
> >You can use an Applied Engineering HD drive with that controller too.
>
> Correct.  However, you do not need the controller to get high
> density with the AE drive.  There is a difference, though.  If
> you use the AE high density drive with the IIGS drive port
> rather than a superdrive card, you will get a 1.6MB GCR
> based high density format.  Yes, it is high density.  It lets
> you store 0.2MB more than the PC 1.44MB format.  It is not
> however PC compatible.  Physically, the disk should be
> readable by a Mac, but I do not think the MacOS driver
> supports the 1.6MB GCR format.  Lastly, because the AE
> high density is the result of its driver, you cannot boot from
> a 1.6MB disk.  You must have GS/OS loaded and the AE
> driver loaded to access 1.6MB disks.
>
> >>There's also a controller from a german company called SHH systeme.
> >>This controller lets you use a PC floppy drive on an Apple II. The
> >>drive'll let you use 1.44mb disks and I believe read 720k pc floppies
> >>but it won't read Apple 800k disks.
> >
> >You can also connect PC 2.88 MB floppy drives to that card as well but
> >the drives and the disks are fairly rare.
> >
> >You missed a third option, though.  You can also use a SCSI controller
> >and hook up a drive that supports 720K and 1.44M floppies.  The most
> >common SCSI drive that supports this is called a floptical.
>
> Not anymore.  The most common SCSI drive that supports
> this now is the SCSI version of the LS-120 SuperDisk.