Re: help: 800k USB floppy drive?

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

I have fixed Mac drives with a UDC and the Dysan alignment disks. It has worked
with all Mac disks including the 2 meg version.

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:52:23 GMT, Barry Allen wrote:

> In article <36cd6118.0106131514.6fb7a95e@posting.google.com>,
> waynes@intergate.ca (Wayne Stewart) wrote:
>
>
>> To get data to a IIgs I'd suggest Appletalk.
>
> I agree. I've even found the SuperDrives in most older Power Macs to be
> very unreliable for writing to PRODOS disks. This could just be my
> particular drives; maybe somebody else out there has had better luck, but I
> have always gotten read/write errors with mine.
>
> I always do my transfers to and from my GSs with AppleTalk. It's smooth,
> faster than floppies, and reliable. I read somewhere that the older
> non-PowerPC Macs (680X0) have SuperDrives that work very nicely with PRODOS
> disks. I owned a Performa 600CD (68030) that I never had a problem with, so
> maybe it's the firmware on newer drives. Anyone out there confirm this?
>
>  If the Mac doesn't have a
>> serial
>> ports then a compact Mac with an Ethernet card can usually be had for
>> pennies.
>> If you use Localtalk bridge you can see through the compact Mac and
>> mount your
>> iMac or Cubes hard drive on your IIgs desktop. I used an SE30 for that
>> for quite a while.
>
> Great idea.
>
> Barry Allen

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