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Re: 3.5 and 5.25 Floppy Drives Question
You mean the Liron 3.5" card? I have one of those on
my IIe Platinum.
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"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message
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> Cheezy wrote
> > Yeah, this I know... But anyway, I'm afraid the drive has some problems.
It
> > failed at formatting a 800k disk on the GS, and doesn't eject
floppies... So
> > I put back in place the regular 800k 3.5" platinum drive - which I also
use
> > on my Mac Plus - daisy-chained with the 5.25 //c drive. Can this one be
> > hooked up to a //e ? Is it the same as Disk ]['s, Unidisks or yet
something
> > different ?
>
> If you're asking about the 5.25 IIc drive then yes it can be used with a
IIe.
> While the design is different, functionally it's basically the same as a
> Disk II. Change the cable and it'll run happily on a disk II card or the
way
> it comes daisy-chained to a 5.25 UniDisk.
>
> If you mean the 3.5" drive, then yes it'll work fine on a IIe or a II or
II+ but
> only if you have the correct interface card. Unfortunetly those cards
aren't too
> common.
>
> Wayne