Re: Need help identifying this drive?

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <labelas-0812990216000001@psl1b30-110.pbc.adelphia.net>,
Labelas Enoreth <labelas@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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...

The "cap" you're talking about came on every grey 3.5 drive when it was
new. The one I got bundled with my IIgs and the second drive I got later
on had 'em. If you need to use the daisy chain port, you just pop off the
cap. Unlike most people apparently did, I kept the caps from mine. When
I got a superdrive, I put one of the caps back on since it's the only
floppy connected to the box.

>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.

The beige 800Ks with model# M0130 have the cable going directly to the
connector on the drive mech, while grey 3.5s have a daisy chain card in
between. The card runs the in use light and allows the eject button to
activate the drive's eject geartrain, among other things.
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