Re: help: 800k USB floppy drive?

[TheFlash@fast.net (Barry Allen)]

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