Re: Apple iie card in a Mac

[Roger Johnstone <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit>]

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.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand -> http://roger.geek.nz