Re: Trackstar can use IBM 360K floppy drives to R/W Apple disks?

[you@somehost.somedomain (Bart)]

  I have a PCTransporter on my IIe upgrade ROM 1.  and I have a Transdrive as 
well on it.  the Trasndrive is a dual 5.25 360k MFM PC style set of drives.  
Yes it can read and write ProDOS disks. 360K MFM recorded ProDOS disks! NOT 
144k CGR Apple drive recorded disks!  THAT is the piece that was missing.

  In the back of the Transdrive is a plug for another drive. In it I have a 
Apple 3.5 Drive plugged. With this I can read and write 720k (but NOT 1.4meg) 
PC style 3.5 floppys.  NOTE: Read works great. Write is iffy...

  I also have a Superdisk card and drive plugged in on this beast and with 
that I can read and write 1.4 meg ProDOS in Apple mode, and 1.4 PC in 
PCTransporter mode (or via Mug!).  
 
 The 5.25 360k MFMs mentioned above allow a wee bit more storage and also 
allow one other interesting trick: they can be used to transport Apple files 
to PC.  How you say?  Well,  if the PC is equipped with a rev B IIe mode 
Diamond Trackstar with the PC A: drive pass-thru card attached, you can then 
read a MFM ProDOS disk in the Trackstar  via the PC's A: if A: is a 5.25  as 
on say a early 386, which is where mine is.  

If you then network the 386 into a more modern PC net, you can use this as yet 
another means of passing files back and forth between platforms.  Weird, but 
it works! ;)
-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck