Re: Dyna File II Disk Drive Question

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990914011143.29465.00006580@ng-bk1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> You mean you've tried everything to get it to work on a Mac.
> Remember, the IIGS is different.  It has a generic SCSI
> hard disk driver.  That's why the IIGS can use a Zip drive
> without a special Iomega driver.
> 
> Therefore, System 6.0.1 and MUG! might just work.
> 
> However, do so at your own risk.  I'm not taking
> responsibility for any damage to drives, controllers, or
> computers!
True, perhaps, but...as far as I can tell, the DaynaFile uses a standard
5.25 drive mechanism with some kind of special controller in it. A
controller which lets it be used on the SCSI bus. Perhaps the IIgs could
see it, but it would have trouble properly interfacing with the drive
controller without knowing exactly what it was supposed to do, no? Or do
all scsi drives have a set of commands that are identical whether it is a
CD, Hard drive, zip, syquest, etc...? And then the drive would just be
like "oh, a disk in my drive, I guess I'll mount it..."...? I mean, hard
drives, and even removables are one thing, but specialized drives...like a
5.25 PC compatible floppy drive...well...anyway.
I digress mainly due to the fact that I have not tried it on my IIgs at
any rate.