Re: AE HD drive

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Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl> wrote:

: Just now I got an AE HD disk drive. No docs, no driver, no controller.
: And I can't get it to work. Well, I can connect it to the SmartPort, and
: it handles 800K disks, but chokes on HD disks. (The computer wants to
: initialize the disk as 800K, and fails). So my question is: do I need a
: controller for it? Or a driver? Or both?

As stated earlier, you need AE's driver to use this as a 1600 disk drive.
The driver conflicts with Apple's 3.5 drive driver, so don't leave both
active.

If you boot into GS/OS first, ProDOS 8 will recognize high desnity disks.
ProSel can back up to 1600K disks (the program will use your high density
disks as two separate 800K volumes).

The AEHD can also be connected to Apple's 3.5 "Superdrive" controler card,
transforming it into a 1440K drive that can access pc and Mac disks.

M.P.