Re: Need help identifying this drive?

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19991205121549.01960.00000959@ng-xb1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1) wrote:
> 
> >   It's a drive made by a third party (Cutting Edge) for the Macintosh.  The
> >drive is pure crap compared to the Apple Sony drives.
> 
> Yes, but I think the drives made by AMR and Applied Engineering
> for the Mac and IIGS were every bit as well made as Apples
> drives.  The AMR and AE drives also have Sony mechs.  In fact,
> I use an AE clone of the Superdrive on my IIGS.  ;-)
> 
> The AE drive even looks almost exactly like a Superdrive.
Well, this looks different...the case reminds me of a drive I once had for
my Tandy, kinda bulky, rounded corners and edges, and a courser textured
plastic. I also noticed that when I held it in one hand and the superdrive
external in the other, it was much, much noticably lighter.
The connector has 19 pins and the molded plastic part of it looks
virtually identical to the connector on a Apple 3.5 external. (well,
except for the little disk logo, and the thumbscrews on this one have a
texture to them)...I know that part means virtually nothing though.
It doesn't seem to be high-desnity as it only has one set of detector pins
(for the write-protect switch)...so, would I be able to use this on my
IIgs or IIe? I don't want to hook something up that might harm it though.

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?

Thanks...