Re: Apple //c+ w/Apple HD20 hard drive

[dr7zyq@rand.nidlink.com]

Actually, the two are hardly comprable.

First, the HD20 plugs into the floppy drive connector on a Mac, the same 
connector into which standard floppy drives plug.  Those same drives can be 
plugged into a //c+ and used as secondary drives.  In addition, the HD20 can 
be formatted using standard formatting software, so long as the software has 
the ability to set aside bad sectors.  Standard System 6 software, of course, 
does not do that; it requires a perfect disk.  That is why there are so many 
shareware formatters for the System 6 Macs.  System 7 does incorporate the 
ability to close out bad sectors.  So it is not difficult to believe that 
because the floppy drive ports accept the same drives and it doesn't require 
special software, then maybe the drive could be used on both machines.  As I 
say, the only problem that I ran into was that when I tried to format the 
drive, it saw it as write protected.  Therefore, one must wonder if there is a 
way to get around the apparent "write protection" road block.

On the other hand, I would have to be a idiot to believe that I could flap my 
arms and fly.

David