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Re: Drive swaps


Declan Macleoid wrote:

> Had a thought over the weekend....
>
> Given that PPC Macs have documented difficulty in reliably creating GS
> disks, has anyone tried switching out a later manual inject drive in a PPC
> box for an earlier auto-inject drive from a m68k machine?  Could the earlier
> drive be installed in the later machine?

I tried that on a beige G3, the last Mac to use a floppy drive. The drive would

immediately eject any disk inserted into it. I never looked into why it does
this,
did they change the pinout or is the drive just not compatible with those
machines?

    Wayne