Re: Flopticals...

[swh54716@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott W. Henson)]

david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) writes:

>toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>>All Floptical compatible drivers I know of (Ramfast 3.0k &up, Floptical
>>drivers for DMA SCSI) do implement eject.

>All this talk of drivers. Has anyone got a floptical drive running on an
>Apple //e under Prodos P8 v2.x.y? Any reason why this should be impossible?
>What controller card did you use and is it still sold?

>Flopticals are getting quite cheap and I would love to run one on my //e as
>a backup device for my HD and to be able to read & write 720/1.44 disks.
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>David Wilson				+61 42 213802 voice, +61 42 213262 fax
>Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au

I expect that "drivers" references device drivers for GS/OS, something that
you will probably not be running on your //e.  Most floptical drives use the
SCSI interface, so you will need a SCSI card to use such a drive with any
Apple II.  There are at least two such cards currently available, the Apple
High Speed SCSI Card, and the C.V. Tech RamFast SCSI Card.  On a //e running
ProDOS, you can use any volume size up to 32 MB, so once you have the SCSI
card and the drive properly connected, you should be able to use any one
of the media that the drives support as a single volume.

The only other thing you might need is a low-level volume formatter.  These
are available in the public domain (try ftp.cco.caltech.edu or the Apple II
binaries).

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