Re: 3.5 and 5.25" drives on //e

["Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com>]

There are several different interface cards for the //e that support the
db-19 daisy chain connector.

The most common one works only with the duodisk (5.25) or 2 unidisk (5.25)
or Apple 5.25 drives.

Then there is the Liron 3.5 interface, which I believe works only with 1 or
2 Unidisk 3.5 drives.
It diesn't work with 5.25 or Apple 3.5 drives.

The superdrive 3.5 interface works with 1 or 2 Unidisk 3.5, Apple 3.5, Apple
Superdrive or FDHD 1.44 M drives.

I don't believe the 3.5 interface cards support 5.25 drives. Later model
Apple //c's support 2 5.25 drives and 2 Unidisk 3.5's. The IIgs and and //c+
smartports will support 2 5.25 drives and 2 Apple 3.5 drives and 2 Unidisk
3.5 drives (6 total).

Then there are third party 3.5 interface cards. The Laser Universal disk
controller would work with both 5.25 and 3.5 drives (not Unidisk), but only
2 drives total. I'm not familiar with AE's interface.

ProDOS supports 3.5 and 5.25 drives on a //e. Special versions of DOS 3.3
(UniDOS, AMDOS) do, too, though they usually remap the 3.5 drive as multiple
DOS 3.3 volumes.

Joel

"John" <twohandsfree@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Do those drive interface cards which accept the daisy chain newer
> (light grey plasic casing) drives allow a //e to use both 5_1/4 *and*
> 3_1/2 drives ?
>
> If so would ProDos support 3 1/2 floppy drives on a //e? (But not Dos
> 3.3, right)
>
> If a 5.25 were the first drive, and a 3.5 the second, would they be
> addressed (?) as 6,1 and 6,2 ?