Re: SuperDrive question...

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> > They daisy-chain. You can have up to two superdrives plus up to two
> > 3.5" UniDisks. Not sure why you'd want to use 3.5" UniDisks.
> > 5.25" drives aren't supported.

According to the SuperDrive card's manual, you are only supposed to
connect a maximum of two drives to the card.

I expect that the firmware was designed to allow for at least four
drives.  If so, then only two of them can be Apple 3.5 Drives and/or
SuperDrives, the rest must be UniDisk 3.5s.  Any UniDisk 3.5s must be at
the end of the daisy chain.  (The order doesn't matter for the Apple 3.5
Drive and SuperDrive, if you are mixing them.)

Another point from the manual: apparently the SuperDrive card doesn't
support UniDisk 3.5s under GS/OS.  I suspect this was just a
compatibility issue with the "UniDisk3.5" driver included with the
version of GS/OS which was current when the card was released (6.0?),
and it might have been fixed in 6.0.1 (I'd have to dig a long way to
extract the release notes, so I can't check right now).


Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:

> So I should be able to put a SuperDrive card in slot 6 and switch between
> the card and my 5.25" drives when I need them?

That's how my ROM 3 IIgs is set up.  When I was still actively using the
machine, the SuperDrive card was enabled about 99% of the time.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz