You don't need a drive card for either the 3.5 or 5.25 drives.
Under normal cercumstances both 5.25" and 3.5" drives connect to the built in floppy port. You can connect up to two of each. It goes in the order of:
IIgs -> 3.5 #1 -> 3.5 #2 -> 5.25 #1 -> 5.25 #2
The only reasons you need a drive card:
The 3.5" drives are HD superdrives for reading 1.44MB floppies... then you'd need 'em.
The onboard drive controller is shot... in which case, it's fairly cheap to buy a replacement IIgs logicboard.
You don't have the newer 5.25 drives that have the same type of connector as the 3.5 drives.... so you eithe rhave the older Disk ][ drives, or you have a 5.25" duo disk drive with two drives in it.
I think I read somewhere that the old disk ][ cards prevent the computer from continuing to scan the slots for bootable drives. So you'd have to go into the control panel to set the computer to boot from the slot you wanted rather than just having it scan the slots.
I'd personally get that disk ][ controller out and hook up some newer 5.25 drives up along with the 3.5 drives to the smart port. The drives don't usually cost very much.
...I have a couple extra drives, though you could probably find some a bit closer to home for a better cost on shipping.
Under normal cercumstances both 5.25" and 3.5" drives connect to the built in floppy port. You can connect up to two of each. It goes in the order of:
IIgs -> 3.5 #1 -> 3.5 #2 -> 5.25 #1 -> 5.25 #2
The only reasons you need a drive card:
The 3.5" drives are HD superdrives for reading 1.44MB floppies... then you'd need 'em.
The onboard drive controller is shot... in which case, it's fairly cheap to buy a replacement IIgs logicboard.
You don't have the newer 5.25 drives that have the same type of connector as the 3.5 drives.... so you eithe rhave the older Disk ][ drives, or you have a 5.25" duo disk drive with two drives in it.
I think I read somewhere that the old disk ][ cards prevent the computer from continuing to scan the slots for bootable drives. So you'd have to go into the control panel to set the computer to boot from the slot you wanted rather than just having it scan the slots.
I'd personally get that disk ][ controller out and hook up some newer 5.25 drives up along with the 3.5 drives to the smart port. The drives don't usually cost very much.
...I have a couple extra drives, though you could probably find some a bit closer to home for a better cost on shipping.