Re: Adding a second floppy drive to an Apple IIe

[Jeff Shanholtz <jeffsubs@shanholtz.com>]

On May 5, 10:22 am, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Are these the non-Apple drives?  Have you tried them without an
> Apple drive connected?  Perhaps you can provide more information
> on these odd branded drives, and pictures even. Might I add that
> it took me a good year of buying up and working on lots of drives
> before getting pretty good at repairing them. This includes 3.5's,
> and I still haven't seen them all. Some of them are just too rare
> and the bids get really too high for me. Anyway, if you can't get
> them to the right speed with the software, try the timing way.

No, it's an apple drive. I'd much rather get the apple one working
than the other off brand ones. I can try the fluorescent light
approach (I think we have one somewhere), although I'm not convinced
that a mechanical (speed) issue would prevent the other functioning
drive from booting (i.e. a mechanical problem in 1 drive causing an
electronic problem on the drive card and/or other drive). Admittedly
I'm not very knowledgeable about these drives though.