Re: SuperDrive (HD floppy) controller for Apple II ?

[Lockar <lockar@locutus.takethisout.org>]

   Wow, I didn't know that Wayne.  I never got to play with a AE HD+
drive.  Thanks for the neet info on that. I always wanted to upgrade my
AE drive but never did.  So I have two AE drives and 1 AE HD drive, no
AE HD+ drive. 

        -Lockar


In article <r_KVd.41404$_G.22510@clgrps12>, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote:

> Sean Fahey wrote:
> 
> > I seem to recall some early AE HD drives couldn't/didn't work as boot
> > drives. Just adding to the thread...
> 
> When connected to the IIgs disk port they only booted 800k disks. Only
> after the AEHD driver was loaded would it recognize 1.6mb disks.
> 
> I did have an idea that I tried but didn't actually work. I tried
> booting off an 800k disk with the AEHD driver and then from there
> rebooting from a 1.6mb disk which also had the AEHD driver. I thought
> that maybe it would  load the AEHD driver on the 1.6mb disk before it
> got confused. Unfortunately it stopped recognizing 1.6mb disks before it
> loaded the driver off the 1.6mb disk
> 
> Wayne