Re: 3.5" drive/interface card question.

[Mark Percival <mark@syndicomm.com>]

Forty Two wrote:

>I have some backup disks which I am interested in, but they are on
>3.5" disks. I purchased 2 3.5" drives and 1 3.5" interface card off
>eBay. Trouble is, I can not get either drive to work. I am suspicious
>about one of the drives as it won't let me insert a disk (hard to
>believe the person selling it did not notice). 

It could be there is already a disk in the drive.  Sometimes people leave a
disk in to prevent damage to the disk heads during dhippng.

>
>I wish I knew if the interface card was OK or not (they seem harder to
>find). Is there any thing I can do to see if the card is good? Apple
>utilities says there is no storage device in slot #5 (slot #5 IS the
>correct slot, isn't it?)

To help you I need to know:

a) What is the exact name of the card you have?  It should be printed on
the card. Apple did 2 different cards that supported 3.5" drives and there
were also 3rd party cards.

b) Which external 3.5" drives are you using?  The name and model number
should be on the underside of the drive.

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