Re: IIC exteral floppy and Mac SE?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

butera@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>Hi folks.
>
>I am trying to "resurrect" a couple Apple IIs (IIe and IIc).
>
>I have a working Mac SE, with Disk Copy and ProDos 3.2 disk images
>(from www.info.apple.com) ready to be copied to floppies.
>
>I have an external IIc 5.25" floppy drive that connects to the
>floppy port connector on the back of the SE.
>
>Is this supposed to work "out of the box"?  The drive access
>light works when the machine accesses the drive but ....

Mac cannot use Apple II 5.25" floppy drives.  The IIe CAN,
however, use a Mac external 3.5" drive, either the 800k or
the 1.44MB variety, with the right card.  The Universal Disk
Controller (UDC) card supports the 800k drive.  It can use
the 1.44MB one, but only for 800k disks.  The SuperDrive
controller supports both 800k and 1.44MB disks and drives.

There are IIe programs that can read files off HFS disks.