Apple IIe card question

[napabar]

I know that Classic Macs can mount Apple II ProDOS disk images, but can they mount actual 5 1/4" disks when using the Apple IIe card and a 5 1/4" drive?

Or is the drive isolated from the Mac unless the card completely takes over the Mac?

And if that is the case, was there any other way to physically connect an Apple II drive to a Mac....since the OS can read ProDOS disks?

Just curious....

 

[Charlieman]

I know that Classic Macs can mount Apple II ProDOS disk images, but can they mount actual 5 1/4" disks when using the Apple IIe card and a 5 1/4" drive? Or is the drive isolated from the Mac unless the card completely takes over the Mac?

The Mac LC or similar can provide services (hard disk partition, network access, serial port access) to the IIe card. The IIe card does not provide services.

And if that is the case, was there any other way to physically connect an Apple II drive to a Mac....since the OS can read ProDOS disks?

5.25" drives cannot be connected directly to the Mac and the Apple IIe card does not provide passthrough access. The unpleasant work around is to copy files (on an Apple II) from 5.25" disk to 3.5" ProDOS disk.

 

[MinerAl]

The first time I ever taught web design (in 1994), I had a room with 24 kids on 10 Apple IIes and two IIgses. There were a few '030 and '040 Mac LCs in the back row. We would write the pages on the IIs, take all the 5.25" floppies to the IIgs, put all the files on one 3.5" ProDOS disk and sneaker-net them over to the Macs to see what we'd wrought.

One of the 550s had a IIe card in it. I do not remember if that was an important part of the process. Doesn't seem like it mattered, because the Macs could see the ProDOS disks anyway.

 

[techknight]

Web design in 1994.... man.... Things sure have changed. I know, I got certified iNet+ (web development) in 2004, and its changed enough now that my knowledge is practically useless