Re: Adding a second floppy drive to an Apple IIe

[Jeff Shanholtz <jeffsubs@shanholtz.com>]

On May 6, 7:55 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> If it's an Apple analog board, then someone probably "recased" it.  ;-)
>
> Otherwise, it's a clone.  Apple published the schematics and also sold them
> for more than 3x their cost, so cloning was inevitable.

It is an apple analog board. The interesting thing is the case is
EXACTLY like the "real" apple case as far as the venting and other
shape aspects other than the fact that the steel is about half as
thick as the "real" one.

As for the cable check, no luck. Swapping cables had no effect. So to
sum up, the drive spins but doesn't read when installed as the
solitary drive, and prevents a working drive from reading when
installed as drive 2. Swapping cables, 2003's and 74125's from my
working drive made no difference. Interestingly, the pseudo-apple
drive seems to have exactly the same characteristics and I tried
swapping all 3 good parts into it as well with no change. Seems both
drives might have the same issue, but I'm not sure I feel like
analyzing schematics at this point since I have a lot of other
projects that are higher priority. If someone has another thing to
check, I'll happily do so but otherwise I will probably give up and be
happy with the one drive I have.

I sure appreciate the input everyone has given.