Re: Problems with 3.5" floppy drives on Apple IIgs

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Jun 27, 5:39 am, skylarking <petsound...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've had a few problems with 3.5" floppy drives on my IIgs, wondering
> if anyone else had ever had such a problem. I have four drives and I
> have tried all of them, and they seem to work for a bit, they I get
> "unable to load Prodos" and the like, even on disks that had worked
> not long before. The 5.25 floppy drive is working fine though. I think
> it may be a problem with the IIgs itself as all the drives are doing
> the same thing, any ideas? :-/

You are plugging the drives into the GS in the correct way, right? #.5
first then the 5.25 into the back of the 3.5, not the other way
around? Do you have a copy of Copy II+ on 5.25? You could always boot
the 5.25 with Copy II+ then insert a disk into the 3.5 and use Copy II
+ to see if you can even catalog the 3.5 disk.

I doubt your problem is the GS if the 5.25 drive is working correctly,
unless you're using an older 5.25 drive that you have plugged into a
Disk II card in slot 6 in the GS.

Sorry I have no other suggestions, I'm not that good with hardware.

Dean