Re: Old non-SCSI Mac hard drive on IIc?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <4sad3t$pvo@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
Will Baguhn <wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:

>Interesting side note: the cable that goes directly to the Macintosh 800k
>disk drive can be used with an old Disk II and a hacksaw to plug it
>into a diskport.  Can't quite daisychain it, unless it's the last drive,
>but it works.

I dunno but I know the opposite doesn't work. If you try to run a disk II 
cable from the connector on a Mac logic board to a drive mech, it goes into
continual eject mode until you kill the power.

>(One of these days, I'm going to sit down and figure out the finer points
>of "that board" inside the Apple 3.5" drive and start making adapters
>so that we can all use Mac 800k drives, which are cheap as crud, as well
>as easily internally-mount the various floppy drives in a tower case
>or othe such...)

No need, all external floppy drives are cheap as crud since no current machines
can use 'em. I've seen external superdrives in the $60 range recently for
example.
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