Re: Should I get two floppy drives?

["schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Feb 23, 3:38 pm, "William Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com>
wrote:
> "MarkW" <mark...@removenospamcomcast.net>
> wrote in messager6jut2duu64hmiq05rs5hn1as52aft7q0u@4ax.com">news:r6jut2duu64hmiq05rs5hn1as52aft7q0u@4ax.com...
> : Great suggestions! I was for awhile considering
> : just getting a Superdrive controller card and
> : FDHD drive. I may be wrong but I assume then you
> : can get the 1.44 3.5" drive and just read PC disks
> : and copy it over to the Apple II onto 5.25" disks.
> : Is that true?
That is true.  But using a 3.5" floppy as your transfer medium is kind
of foreign to an IIe.  Little if any non-IIgs software is on 3.5"
disks or disk images.

> : The other option I'm highly considering is the
> : Ethernet card.  I'm not sure how hard it is to
> : use but I have a ethernet network in my house
> : so it seems like it would be the simplest solution,
> : even better than the serial card option since my
> : PC's and Mac's don't have serial cards.
The software using the Uther card (Contiki, ADTPro) generally needs
some TCP/IP setup done.  Contiki is quite simple.  The stack ADTPro
uses doesn't have TCP (only UDP) support, so there's no DNS
resolution.  You have to type in IP addresses numerically.

> This way no MS-DOS FST is necessary.
An IIe isn't going to be running GSOS or FSTs at all. :-)

So, this boils down to how you want to do world-to-Apple transfers.
No option is cost-free.  Some options you have:
 * Compact flash adapter, Ciderpress
 * Uther, ADTPro
 * $uperdrive controller, FDHD
 * Super Serial + USB serial adapter, ADT