Re: SuperDrive (HD floppy) controller for Apple II ?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:46:24 GMT, Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet>
wrote:

>That doesn't really solve the problem. While the AE HD drive could use
>high density disks, it used a format that other computers couldn't read
>and it couldn't read anyones 1.4mb disks.

I've never tried it but I have heard, and it makes perfect sense to
me, that if you hook an AE HD 3.5" drive to a SuperDrive controller,
you can use it to deal with 720/1440 KB MFM disks as well as 800 KB
GCR disks.

>The superdrive controller seems like the best option for floppy disks
>with the second place likely going to ///SHH Systemes BlueDisk
>controller

I still keep an eye open for a SCSI floptical drive because that would
be the easiest way for me to be able to use HD floppies on my IIgs.  I
already have a SCSI card but I don't have a HD floppy controller.  :-)

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