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

["brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net>]

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> 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.

no ..essentially the a.e. software disk solution allows you to use 1.44
floppy
disks formated with said ae software on a ae 3.5" drive...supposedly another
3.5 inch apple drive could not read it....but maybe another ae modified 3.5
inch
drive could...anyway..only other way i know to use cheaply (ie get ae 3.5
inch drive
and said ae software disk) to use 1.44 disks on your 3.5" floppy
drive..besides the
bluedisk and supercontroller..i've seen ae 3.5" drives on ebay for less then
8 bucks...


by the way how do you exactly tell if it is a super controller card..what is
printed on
them and the numbers...(i could look it up but am lazy)



> 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.  :-)

that was my work around on this....got a tullin one on ebay for i think it
was something like
40 bucks ....but i think you can only read the hd floppies that were
formated on the floptical
not sure if you could read the hd formated on the apple with the superdrive

(anyway...pretty exotic  topic area i likely don't remember this right)

brad