Re: 5.25 in disk drive

[markREMOVE@a2central.com (Mark Percival)]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, "Mr. Carp" <mr_carp@hotmail.com> wrote:

>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

The Apple 5.25 Drive will not normally work with a Macintosh.  Both
the external disk port and MacOS were not designed to support the use
of them.

The exception is a Macintosh LC series computer equipped with a IIe LC
card with the Apple 5.25 Drive attached to the card.

Could you could tell us exactly why you need to format 5.25 disks on a
Macintosh?  Perhaps we could come up with an alternate solution.

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