Re: Apple iie card in a Mac

[Tony Kavadias]

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.

For the Apple IIe to use 3.5" ProDOS disks, use the Mac LC's internal
3.5" drive.  Due to this design, however, it may not be possible to
use 3.5" disks formatted for anything other than ProDOS or
Apple II Pascal.


> After setting up a Apple Share server I was surprised that my IIgs
> could mount the CD rom on the LC.

That's to be expected... Macs can export any volume it can mount to
any AppleShare client, including an Apple IIGS.


> The access speed is not to bad and I could start the Orca environment
> from CD rom.
> When I compare to the prize for the iigs SCSI card on ebay, it seems
> to be a pretty cheap setup to get a CD rom access on a IIgs.
>
> To bad that I was not able to share the 1.44 floppy with the iigs.
> Anybody who had more luck with that?

Copy the 1.44 MB floppy to the Mac's hard disk drive, and get the
IIGS to read that off the hard drive.


> I have appleshare 2 running, would it be possible to share the floppy
> with appleshare 3?
> Can someone tell me where I can get Appleshare 3?

I don't think AppleShare wants to share any floppy devices, since
AppleShare demands to run on Macintosh systems that have hard disk
drives installed!


> Wolfgang


-- tonza