Re: 5.25 in disk drive

["Simon Biber" <xbiber@bigpond.net.au>]

You can't connect that drive to your IIci. The controller is not designed to
work with it, and I have heard it may cause damage to the drive or the
controller.

Do you have a 3.5" drive for your IIgs? If so, you can make compatible 3.5"
floppies on the IIci and copy to the 5.25" drive on the IIgs.

Simon.

> Hi,
>
> I have a buttload of 5.25 disks that I want to use with my IIgs, but I
> need to use the 5.25 drive with a Mac IIci (has a disk drive port) to
> format the disks and write things to them. However, when I connect the
> drive to the Mac and start it up, it tries to read from the drive and
> then says the disk is locked and it cannot format. I click OK and then
> cycle repeats. with the same messeage wheter the disk is locked or not
> or whether ther is even a disk in the drive at all. Any ideas on how I
> can format ProDOS 5.25 disks on my Mac for my IIgs? Thanks
>
> --
> -MrCarp