Re: Adding a second floppy drive to an Apple IIe

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Jeff Shanholtz <jeffsubs@shanholtz.com> wrote:
> On May 5, 10:22 am, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Are these the non-Apple drives?  Have you tried them without an
>> Apple drive connected?  Perhaps you can provide more information
>> on these odd branded drives, and pictures even. Might I add that
>> it took me a good year of buying up and working on lots of drives
>> before getting pretty good at repairing them. This includes 3.5's,
>> and I still haven't seen them all. Some of them are just too rare
>> and the bids get really too high for me. Anyway, if you can't get
>> them to the right speed with the software, try the timing way.
> 
> No, it's an apple drive. I'd much rather get the apple one working
> than the other off brand ones. I can try the fluorescent light
> approach (I think we have one somewhere), although I'm not convinced
> that a mechanical (speed) issue would prevent the other functioning
> drive from booting (i.e. a mechanical problem in 1 drive causing an
> electronic problem on the drive card and/or other drive). Admittedly
> I'm not very knowledgeable about these drives though.

You're right, it wouldn't. 

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