Re: apple ][gs 1.44 superdrive

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Willie Yeo <yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au> wrote:

> prawntoe (prawntoe@post1.com) wrote:
> 
> : I was told that the apple superdrive needs a seperate card to pluggin
> : to one of the slots while the AE one need not. 
> 
>       Does one need a SuperDrive controller card to access Peter 
> Watson's MS-DOS Utilities with a SuperDrive reading 1.44 MFM ??

Yes.  The SuperDrive requires the SuperDrive Controller to be able to
access either 720K or 1.44MB disks (as well as 400K and 800K).  If you
connect it to anything else, it will only support 400K and 800K disks.

There are other options for accessing 1.44MB disks (e.g. a SCSI
Floptical drive, or a BlueDisk card with PC 3.5" drive), but none of
them also support 800K disks.

The PC Transporter lets you access 720K disks with an Apple 3.5 Drive,
via a somewhat cludgy solution that isn't 100% reliable.  The SuperDrive
might also work in this configuration, but only using the same 720K
cludge.  I don't want to risk my SuperDrive testing it.

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David Empson
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