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

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Lockar" <lockar@locutus.takethisout.org> wrote in message
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>     There are two flavors of the AE drive.  There is the AE HD+ drive,
> this drive would format a HD disk at 1.6mb.  One catch, you can only
> use this disk on that drive, for nothing would be able to read that
> format.  If you hooked the drive up to a supper drive controler I think
> you could do 1.44 too as well, I'm not sure if I remember that
> correctly.   The AE HD+ drive used a driver in GSOS and a their special
> drive.  They used to sell an upgrade you could get if you bought the
> 800k AE drive to turn it into the HD+.
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>       The other flavor of the AE drive was the HD drive.  This was your
> normal HD drive and or really market to work with the Mac however you
> could use it on Super Drive controler as well (mine works fine).

I seem to recall some early AE HD drives couldn't/didn't work as boot
drives. Just adding to the thread...