Re: Can't Daisy chain to FDHD drive!!!

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...
>
>The only way to take full advantage of a SuperDrive on a IIe or IIgs
>is to use Apple's SuperDrive controller card (official name is the
>"Apple 3.5 Disk Controller Card").  This card requires a IIgs or
>enhanced IIe.

	Soon Apple IIe and IIgs users will have another option avaliable, 
the company called ABC Direct will be offering a _new_ 3rd party FDHD 
controller card! It will work with the Apple SuperDrive and I assume
simular drives, such as the AE and AMR 1.44mb floppy drives.

	This is wonderful news, seeing as the Apple 3.5 Controller Card
has been long discontinued and is very rare to find these days. I've been 
informed that the ABC Direct card will be available around August 1995.
I've absolutely no idea of features, compatibility or price, though I'll
post once I have more information. The BlueDisk controller from Germany
is nice, but has two major drawbacks IMHO: external MFM IBM drives with
their own powersource are non-existant, and you cannot access 400k/800k
GCR floppy drives. BD seems best suited for users who place their GSes 
in a towercase I would think...

>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

Mitchell Spector
m_spect@vega.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca