Re: Apple External 3.5" drive

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Bruce Tomlin (btomlin@crl.com) wrote:
: nlayton@teleport.com wrote in comp.sys.apple2:

: >Just for what it's worth I have a MAC Classic and I took my external 800K 
: >drive off of it (Just now !) and plugged into my GS.

: >It works fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I booted from it and read several disks 
: >from Prosel and the finder with no hiccups. When it doubt try it.

: That's interesting.  So how did you eject the disks?  Or does the IIgs 
: know how already?  I've never used a IIgs before, just IIs and Macs.

: Of course, the real test is:  will an HD drive work?  It should at least
: need a SWIM chip (the same one used to upgrade a SE to support 1.4 meg
: drives) to replace the old IWM chip, but it may need a new driver, too. 

Every grey drive there is, be it 800K or 1.4 mb, has a daisychain card and
connector and eject button. They work with IIgses and //c pluses and Mac Pluses
and newer Macs with a floppy port.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
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