Subject: Re: IDE interface for the Apple ][GS?
From: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 1998 3Ç58 
Message-id: <3652A840.24ACF990@swbell.net>

Supertimer writes ...
> 
> Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
> 
> >Is there an IDE interface for the Apple ][GS?  I would like to use some
> >of my existing drives.
> 
> There are two.
> 
> One is the Focus controller, which comes with the Focus hard drive
> card.  According to Alltech's advertisements, the controller card
> can drive any IDE drive (for example, the ones in the Vulcan)
> with a standard notebook to 3.5" IDE cable.

     Cables that will do this are advertised in a few places. So far,
they seem to be pretty expensive-- like $20 or so. (Do you know of any
place selling them for a sane price?)

     You can get some decent size 2.5" IDE drive modules-- like 500MB or
so-- for around $50 that can be swapped in and mounted to a Focus card.
This looks like a better route than attaching 3.5" drives with a
separate cable. 


> The cheapest Focus
> costs $59 and I don't think they sell it without the mechanism,
> but you can buy one for the controller.
> 
> The other one is the MicroDrive TurboIDE card, an updated
> version of the TurboIDE that now supports 2GB per partition
> and 2 drives per card.  SHH Systeme of Germany makes them.
> They can be found for doing a web search for their name.

     Yes; SHH Systeme sells 2-3 models of IDE controller. They are
described on their website at  http://users.ids.net/~kerwood/shh.html .




Rubywand