I have two 800K 3.5" drives and one 5.25" drive for my Apple IIGS. However, I can't seem to use any 800K 3.5" disks. It's like it can't find it, or it doesn't work, and I've tried both 3.5" drives. I even tried just having one 3.5" drive connected, and no other drives, and it still wouldn't see or load anything from any of the disks.
Both 3.5" drives eject floppies perfectly, so that's good. I downloaded several different GS/OS images from macintoshgarden.org and some of them would write to a disk, and some caused Stuffit Expander to exit with an error of type 3. I used a Power Macintosh 7200/75 to download the images and write them to the disks. I tried on both Mac OS 7.6.1 and Mac OS 8.6.
Am I doing something wrong? I have limited knowledge of Apple II computers, so I'm looking through the DOS manual, the IIGS owner's manual, and nothing I find, including online works for me.
This Apple IIGS is the 1 MB of RAM version, with ROM version 3.
If anyone could help me, I'd appreciate it! Thanks in advance!
I don't have a IIGS neither a 3.5" driver, but most likely they behave the same way the 5.25" drivers in a IIe. Try to clean the drivers' heads with isopropyl alcohol and make sure you are using DD floppies and not the HD