Re: Exactly what 800K 3.5 drive do I need?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Your 5.25 controller won't run a 3.5" drive, You can hook ant 3.5 disk drive
made by Apple to the IIe with the right interface card.  While none are common,

her's the more common ones
The Liron card is required to use the 3'5" Unidisk.
The Superdrive card will let you use the platinum 800k & 1.4mb drives, (The
grey drives with the eject button)
The Universal Disk Controller(UDC) card will let you use the Mac 400k &
800k drives(no eject button) and the 800k platinumdrive. With a lot of UDC
cards the eject button often doesn't function.


John Jacobs wrote:

> Hi, I've got a IIe and recently got an 800K 3.5 drive. I'm pretty sure it's
> from a Mac. Anyway, on my IIe the 5.25 drive has a 19pin connector, and this
> 800K daisy-chains in there just fine. I made it slot 6, D2 and when I do a
> cat ,d2 or something like that its power light DOES come on, but there's an
> error reading the disk.
>
> 1. Exactly what am I looking for a 3.5 800K drive on the IIe with minimal
> fuss.
>
> 2. Do I need another floppy controller, or will the one I have now work?
>
> Thanks!