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Re: platinum grey 3.5 drives and accelerated IIe
- Subject: Re: platinum grey 3.5 drives and accelerated IIe
- From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
- Date: 1999/08/18
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <7pa32c$4ng$4@lynx.unm.edu>
buggie@auriga.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:
> PLATINUM GREY 3.5" 800k DRIVES AND ACCELERATED IIE?
>
> I have a IIe with 8 MHz zip chip. I am aware that the platinum
>Apple 3.5 drives do not work with the IIe because the IIe is too slow to
>handle the data transfer rate.
>
> I have a "LIRON" Apple card to operate the white Unidisk 3.5
>drive. But would the Liron operate a platinum 3.5 drive if the IIe is
>accelerated?
No because the Liron card is still operating slow.
> If no one knows for sure, would there be any risk in connecting
>the drives to find out?
No risk, but also no go. ;-)
>What about the platinum 3.5 drive "clones" such
>as the AE 800K disk?
Nope. Consider them Platinum 3.5 drives.
> Steve Buggie buggie@unm.edu
>
>NOTE: The IIe _does_ operate the platinum 3.5 drive if the interface card
>is a Laser UDC card, or the OKS Multicache drive controller card.
Yes. In fact, if you have a Laser UDC on your IIe, you can
"lobotomize" your UniDisk 3.5 drives to turn them (reversably)
into Apple (Platinum) 3.5 drives for added speed.