Re: Apple iie card in a Mac

["Frank" <none@none.net>]

"Roger Johnstone" <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote in 
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> In <47ee5e42$0$17201$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> Tony 
> Kavadias wrote:
>> On 2008-03-19 05:09:15 +1100, wolf <wkemper@ti.com> said:
>>
>>> Hi, I got recently a Mac LC with a apple iie card.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the setup included instead of the UNIDISK 3.5 
>>> the
>>> "unintelligent" 3.5 disk.
>>> The previous owner told me he had this running but I doubt it 
>>> as all
>>> informations I could gather tell you not to connect    the 
>>> other 3.5
>>> drive or you risk damage .
>>> Is the guy right and I am just overcautious?
>>
>> The port on the Apple IIe Card is for one, or two 
>> daisy-chained,
>> Apple 5.25 drives ONLY.  Connection of any other kind of 
>> device
>> (including either the Apple 3.5 or UniDisk 3.5 drives) will 
>> cause
>> damage to the Apple IIe Card.
>
> I've never used the IIe card myself, but all the Apple 
> documentation on
> it that I've read says the card supports daisy chaining one 
> UniDisk 3.5.
> This seems to have been done specifically to support disk copy-
> protection schemes which wouldn't work with the Mac's internal 
> drive.
>
> -- 
> Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand -> 
> http://roger.geek.nz

My IIe card works fine with one Unidisk 3.5 first in the chain 
followed by two Apple 5.25 drives.

Frank