Re: It's a FIGHT! 3.5 versus SCSI!

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <mark-270993113108@128.157.9.145> mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:
> I am still working on getting CP/M up and running decently on the //gs.
> I downloaded a program called ANYDISK.COM from oak.oakland.edu.  A very
> nice program too. :)  Anyway, it would not read the smart port.  So I
> had this 3.5 disk controller card in my //e and I decided to plug it
> into the //gs.  Just to see if ANYDISK.COM would _then_ be able to read
> the 3.5".

Which 3.5" controller card is this?  If it is the "Apple UniDisk 3.5
Controller Card" (the original card required to use a UniDisk 3.5 with
a IIe), then there is a very good reason for the problem:

This card does not work properly in the IIgs!  (As you have discovered
the hard way.)

You don't need it anyway - just connect the 3.5" drive to the IIgs
disk port.  If you already have one or more drives connected there,
you must connect the UniDisk 3.5 AFTER any Apple 3.5 Drives, but
BEFORE any 5.25" drives.

Apple's newer 3.5" controller card (the so-called "SuperDrive
Controller", which is actually the "Apple 3.5 Disk Controller Card")
works fine in the IIgs - I have one along with my Apple High-Speed
SCSI card, and they both work fine.
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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