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

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

    There are two flavors of the AE drive.  There is the AE HD+ drive,
this drive would format a HD disk at 1.6mb.  One catch, you can only
use this disk on that drive, for nothing would be able to read that
format.  If you hooked the drive up to a supper drive controler I think
you could do 1.44 too as well, I'm not sure if I remember that
correctly.   The AE HD+ drive used a driver in GSOS and a their special
drive.  They used to sell an upgrade you could get if you bought the
800k AE drive to turn it into the HD+.

      The other flavor of the AE drive was the HD drive.  This was your
normal HD drive and or really market to work with the Mac however you
could use it on Super Drive controler as well (mine works fine).

     As for the Floptical, will work too. But I think only for GSOS I
will have to ask my friend it works in ProDOS 8 or not.  See I have a
friend many years ago put his ROM 01 GS in a tower case (this was back
when the ROM 03 was just coming out) and he did what you did, he has a
SCSI card so he went with the floptical instead if buying the
SuperDrive card.  But like I said, I don't know if he was able to use
the drive in ProDOS 8 or not.

       -Lockar

    (just take out 'takemeout' to e-mail me)


In article <112atlmdf1r3sfa@corp.supernews.com>, brad
<mrbrad(remove)@ll.net> wrote:

> ">
> > I've never tried it but I have heard, and it makes perfect sense to
> > me, that if you hook an AE HD 3.5" drive to a SuperDrive controller,
> > you can use it to deal with 720/1440 KB MFM disks as well as 800 KB
> > GCR disks.
> 
> no ..essentially the a.e. software disk solution allows you to use 1.44
> floppy
> disks formated with said ae software on a ae 3.5" drive...supposedly another
> 3.5 inch apple drive could not read it....but maybe another ae modified 3.5
> inch
> drive could...anyway..only other way i know to use cheaply (ie get ae 3.5
> inch drive
> and said ae software disk) to use 1.44 disks on your 3.5" floppy
> drive..besides the
> bluedisk and supercontroller..i've seen ae 3.5" drives on ebay for less then
> 8 bucks...
> 
> 
> by the way how do you exactly tell if it is a super controller card..what is
> printed on
> them and the numbers...(i could look it up but am lazy)
> 
> 
> 
> > I still keep an eye open for a SCSI floptical drive because that would
> > be the easiest way for me to be able to use HD floppies on my IIgs.  I
> > already have a SCSI card but I don't have a HD floppy controller.  :-)
> 
> that was my work around on this....got a tullin one on ebay for i think it
> was something like
> 40 bucks ....but i think you can only read the hd floppies that were
> formated on the floptical
> not sure if you could read the hd formated on the apple with the superdrive
> 
> (anyway...pretty exotic  topic area i likely don't remember this right)
> 
> brad
> 
>