From - Tue Sep 9 22:39:05 1997 Path: netaxs.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!newsfeed1-hme1!newsfeed.internetmci.com!164.67.42.145!nntp.info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!usenet From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: High Density FD's Date: 8 Sep 1997 22:27:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5v1u4i$1l8g@uni.library.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: host-a443ea73.library.ucla.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: netaxs.com comp.sys.apple2:122017 Jeff Lemke wrote: >Is it possible to add a high density 3.5" floppy drive to an Apple IIgs? >I'm guessing it is, but being a relative newcomer to Apples, I don't know >what sort of drive and controller board is needed, or where to get them. >Does anybody know? > >Jeff Lemke Sure. Grab a BlueDisk card from //SHH Systeme and grab a standard PC high density floppy drive. This is much cheaper than the SuperDrive card/drive route. BlueDisk formatted high density disks can be accessed by SuperDrive owning GS users, but its double-density format can't. This is not much of a problem, since the IIgs has its own double-density drive port already. Just write high density disks in the BlueDisk drive and double density disks in the Apple drive you already have. You can also dig up an old floptical (look in PC and Mac places, as flopticals are regularly abandoned) and connect it to an SCSI card in the IIgs. The floptical's high density disks can be exchanged with SuperDrive and BlueDisk owners. Again, the double-density format is not interchangeable, but you've already got a double-density drive. Scott G.