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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Two questions
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Date: 8 Sep 90 21:53:50 GMT
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In article <1990Sep8.073212.2278@wrkof.incom.de> spock@wrkof.incom.de (Martin Georg) writes:
>   
>1) One friend tried to use a Laser 800KB Unidisk-compatible disk drive
>connected via the UCD on his IIgs under GS/OS (System 5.02).  On boot-
>up, the System popped up a message stating something like: Unidisk re-
>quires a driver. Please install driver and reboot system".

Isn't that great?  The system recognizes it as a UniDisk, but the UniDisk
driver doesn't.

I gave my Laser drive to my parents for their //e (in exchange for an old
Epson RX-80), and bought a used Apple drive for $200.  I'd recommend getting
an AE 3.5" drive and using the Laser one as a second drive; the speed
difference alone is worth it.

>Does someone use this configuration on his IIgs??? Is there a special
>driver needed (I think the system will use a generated driver if no
>special driver is available...).

Right.  You just can't boot from it.  Probably Apple's engineers trying to
save you from disk switched problems.

>Martin Georg

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