Re: Need help identifying this drive?

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

See, the reason I asked about the cap is because I had seen the same exact
(appearing, at least) drive marketed in two different areas:
As a external 3.5 800k for the IIgs and for the mac. I think they may have
had different part numbers as well (within the catalog. do not know about
the drive itself)...but according to everyone on here, they are
identical...so I wondered, if maybe the mac versions were capped at the
factory, or if that was a new thing with the superdrive...or for the
superdrive for the mac....I dunno.
I've also seen the buttonless 800k drive, the later 'mac-only' version,
but there was a point where the button version was used for both lines...

Why is it that the Mac 800k (lacking the button) will not work with the
IIgs, but the one with it will? I thought internally they were the
same...I mean, obviously you'd need to use a paperclip to eject the disk,
but still.

In article <384B1640.BF05D8DC@intergate.bc.ca>, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

> A number of Apple 3.5" drives I've acquired had a cap over the
daisy-chain port
> but the port was under all of them and they all worked.  The Mac
version, that is
> the 800k drive without an eject button doesn'ty have a daisy-chain port
at all. no
> cover, no hole in the case there. However the IIgs drives will work as a Mac
> external but not the other way around.
> 
> 
> > Oh, and additionally, another question...
> > I noticed that my Apple External Superdrive has a cap over the daisychain
> > port on it. Did apple do this with the Mac version of the 800k external as
> > well? Is there a port under there if I pry the cap off? Does it work?
> >
> >