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.
