Re: Dyna File II Disk Drive Question

[Bryan Villados <news001@macgeek.org>]

Well, there's only one way to find out... That is to try it!!!! I just
purchased such a drive on eBay, and it's on its way. When I receive it,
I'll give it a try on my IIGS with my RAMFast card.

I also have a ton of legacy Macintosh computers this drive can be used
on. To summarize:

- The drivers are not Mac OS 8 compliant. Matter of fact, the latest it
  has been tested with is System 7.1.

- The drive MUST use DOS Mounter. It does not work with PC Exchange.
  DOS Mounter is also developed by Dayna Communications, so the driver
  to run the drive (and probably the controller) is proprietary.

- The latest drivers I've seen is version 4.1

- It doesn't sound like this drive will read 5.25" ProDOS diskettes,
  but I'll give it the 'ole college try!!!!


In article
<labelas-1409990147090001@1cust161.tnt1.fort-pierce.fl.da.uu.net>,
Labelas Enoreth <labelas@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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.