Re: Apple II GS 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppy drive: can they be combined?

[Steve Nickolas <dosius@dosius.com>]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Hans Otten wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have some questions if and how to combine 3 1/5 and 5 1/4 inch on the
> II GS. I cannot find the answers in the FAQs (which i think are filled
> with lots os good info!)
> 
> Last week I acquired an Apple II GS with a 3 1/5 and 5 1/4 inch original
> floppy drives. ROM 01, 512 KB RAM card, RGB monitor.  Alas no software
> nor documents came with this machine. I do have Apple II, IIe and IIc
> machines with DOS 3.3 and Prodos 1.x and Apple Pascal 1.3 and Appleworks
> 2 on 5 1/4 floppies and those work fine on the II GS on the 5 1/4.  
> Ofcourse I need to get some more II GS specific manuals and operating
> systems and software. Also the 512K has to become extended to 1 MB (i
> have enough 41256 IC's to do that)  and the battery is also dead (also
> easy to replace thanks to the faq).
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1. Can 3 1/5 and 5 1/4 inch floppy drives be combned? 

Yes; 3.5" drive goes in slot 5, 5.25" in 6.

> 2. What OS supports this?

ProDOS.

> 3. Does Apple Pascal support this?

I have seen Pascal 3.5" disks.

-uso.