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[Running Bear]

RB,

Have you ever seen one of the apple IIc clones the laser 128??? I saw one years ago looks just like the the same case/enclosure. Are the extra drives a plug and play type deal or do you need a disk to install them? I have a IIe compatible drive someone gave me the power light lights up but I do not think the IIc recognizes the drive. The only info on its condition is that it came from a house of heavy smokers. Any idea where to start to trouble shoot the drive?

I'm not sure about the clone but on the IIc the extra drive doesn't require any installation software. Just power the computer down, plug in the drive and reboot. The built-in drive will be DRIVE 1 and the extra drive will be identified as DRIVE 2. So to catalog (get list of files) the disk in the built-in drive you would type in CATALOG D1. For the added drive type in CATALOG D2. Many clone drives wre compatible with most Apples but not all the Apple drives were compatible with clones.