Re: High Density FD's

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Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> wrote:
>Is it possible to add a high density 3.5" floppy drive to an Apple IIgs?
>I'm guessing it is, but being a relative newcomer to Apples, I don't know
>what sort of drive and controller board is needed, or where to get them.
>Does anybody know?
>
>Jeff Lemke


Sure.  Grab a BlueDisk card from //SHH Systeme and grab a standard PC
high density floppy drive.  This is much cheaper than the SuperDrive
card/drive route.

BlueDisk formatted high density disks can be accessed by SuperDrive
owning GS users, but its double-density format can't.  This is not much
of a problem, since the IIgs has its own double-density drive port
already.  Just write high density disks in the BlueDisk drive and double
density disks in the Apple drive you already have.

You can also dig up an old floptical (look in PC and Mac places, as
flopticals are regularly abandoned) and connect it to an SCSI card in
the IIgs.  The floptical's high density disks can be exchanged with
SuperDrive and BlueDisk owners.  Again, the double-density format is
not interchangeable, but you've already got a double-density drive.

Scott G.