Re: 5 1/4 to 3 1/2" with IIe card?

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

> HI:
>
> Just received my Apple IIe emulator card for my LCIII and it works. But
> I wanted to transfer the files from my 5 1/4" diskettes (PRODOS files
> made with AppleWorks) to 3 1/2" floppies.
>
> I have an Apple external 3 1/2" drive (M0130); but I'm not able to
> access it. Maybe it's not possible?
> I tried daisy chaining the drives, but the 3 1/2" drive didn't show up.
> The 5 1/4 shows up as if it were on Slot 6 drive 1. I would have thought
> that the 3 1/2" would show as if it were on Slot 6 drive2, but it
> didn't.

The only 3.5" drive you can attach to the IIe card is a UniDisk 3.5". Can't
you use the internal drive of the Mac anyway? You can set it up on the
smartport, which should default to Slot 5.

> Is there no way to access the external Apple 5 1/4" drive while in
> System 7.5.x so I can copy the PRODOS files to my internal 3 1/2 on my
> LCIII?

As far as I know, there is no way to do that, but you can access the
internal 3.5" from the Apple emulation.

> Also, another question. Should PRODOS be able to recognize DOS 3.3
> files. I mean diskettes that were formatted on a PC with DOS 3.3? Or is
> this some other DOS 3.3 especially made more Apples?

Apple DOS 3.3 came before ProDOS, it is completely different to PC-DOS or
MS-DOS 3.3. The paragraph below refers to Apple DOS 3.3.

ProDOS itself can't recognise DOS 3.3 disks, but there are programs you can
run which do allow this. The Prodos Utilities which come on the main ProDOS
disk (file is called SYSUTIL.SYSTEM) do allow you to access DOS 3.3 disks as
well as Pascal and maybe some other formats.

Simon.