Re: Duo Disk

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <CHxLzA.1qr@wyvern.wyvern.com>, usi@wyvern.wyvern.com (Luis Melgoza) writes:
|> astdm@acad2.alaska.edu writes:
|> 
|> >Does the Apple Duo disk work with the current Apple // computers (apple //c,
|> >//gs, enhanced //e)?  I have an unenhanced //e that I am upgrading but it came
|> >with a Duo disk ... I hooked it to my gs and it would not recognize it.  Does
|> >this mean when I upgrade the //e I will have to get another disk drive?
|> 
|> The DuoDisk has its own controller card -in slot 6, normally- your GS didn't
|> recognize it because the card was left in the //e -I'm assuming here-. You
|> don't have to buy other disk drives when you enhance the //e as long as you
|> don't remove the DuoDisk controller card.

You don't (or shouldn't) need the controller card when using a DuoDisk with
a GS; it should work plugged into the disk port.

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)