Re: High Density Drive and controller questions

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"Marlin Bates, IV" <mbates4@gte.net> wrote:

>I just bought an Apple "Mustang II" card for 1.44 floppy controller and am
>wondering how to use it.

Plug in a SuperDrive and use System 6.0.1.

>What slot do I put it in?

Slot 5 is the best.

>How do I connect regular 800k drives?  To the disk port on the back or the one
>on the card?

To the card.  You both regular 800k drives and 1.44MB ones in
a chain starting at the port on the card and adding by plugging
each drive into the port at the back of the previous one.

>How do I set up the control panels?  Is there software or a text manual on the
>net somewhere?

Plug card into slot 5.  Set control panel's slot 5 to "Your Card."

No specific software except System 6.0.1 and it's default 3.5 driver.

>Which cards does it conflict with? SCSI Cards?

It conflicts with no cards.

>Also looking for any information on the Applied Engineering Transporter card
>and software.

Look at the ftp server http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/ in the directory
/2/apple2/apple8/Pgms for pctbootvol.shk.  That's the disk image
you need to start the card.

For the old XT style MS-DOS software.  I don't know which Asimov
type sites have PCT MS-DOS disk images, but that's probably
where you need to get them.  Not much XT software is available
anymore.  Simple programs like pkunzip will work, though (but
something like Angel, an 8-bit unzipper, will be faster even on a
regular IIGS).