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Re: SuperDrive Card (Apple II 3.5" Disk Controller Card) and FDHD Questions...
Mitchell Spector wrote:
Back to the IBM drives, it's rather unlikely you had one of these working
on your Apple IIgs.
While I would not mind arguing the point, I long ago dumped my random
Mac superdrives in favor of the new mechanisms sold by Shreve. I no
longer own any of those old recycled mac drives. I think that one in
particular hit the trash can because of the eject issue.
Maybe someone else out there would want to try it.
According to this page: http://siber-sonic.com/mac/superfloppy.html
the manual inject SuperDrives ARE in fact backwards compatible...
In otherwords, I could feasibly pull a SuperDrive from my platinum G3
Yes, the drives from a Beige G3 work fine as a super drive in general.
I have done it. But I don't believe the mechanism is as suited for CGR
disks. I recall intermittent read and or write errors when dealing with
some of the newest drives, on Macs and when converted. I have run into
the problem fairly consistently in my limited experience.
so maybe the only issue is it not _physically_
fitting inside an external Apple 3.5 case. The eject button is in a
different place for one thing.
Don't ya just hate it when a drive eject button isn't where it's
supposed to be?
Another issue, fit or no fit, would be the complaints they have flakey
compatibility with GCR formatted disks. So even if they're electronically
compatibly it would be far from preferrable.
Yes, I'd attest to that. (YMMV)
I'd be interested in hearing if these do work on the Apple II. If they
do, then all these years I've been wrong. :)
Your not wrong, just under informed. I once believed the PC 5.25 floppy
drive hardware was incapable of reading my Apple II 5.25 diskettes. :)
Even after I heard that it could I didn't believe it until I tried it.
Thankx,
Ed