Re: Apple HD20 on an A2

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com>]

These do work with an SE.  I've got one on an SE across the room.  I'm
told that they can also work with the other macs that have the floppy
drive port...such as the LC?  I've not tried it, though....
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Louis Schulman wrote:
> 
> In <38edfccb$1@news1.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> writes:
> >There is a forsale post on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace for an Apple HD20,
> >the one that runs off a Mac floppy port. It says the disk is formatted
> >ProDos, and can be used on an Apple II.  Is this true? If so, anyone have
> >any experience with this, who can say how to get one working with an A2?
> >(which models it works with, any formatting or driver software required.)
> >TIA,
> >-Paul
> >
> >
> I think this is a mistake.  The drive is probably formatted MFS, the file
> system the first Macs used, before HFS.
> 
> The drive only works with a few early Macs, the 512, Plus and possibly SE,
> because they are the only machines with info in their ROMs to understand
> the drive.  I never heard of any way to make one work with a //.
> 
> Louis