Re: Apple / Mac Question(s)

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <XSEGc.53$6t1.25@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
 "Jonathan Herr" <dracosilver@wi.rr.com> wrote:

> I have an 'Macintosh Hard Drive 20' and I am wondering if there is a way to
> get it to run on an Apple IIGS, since it has the floppy port like on the
> floppy drives...

Not by itself. You'll need a SCSI card for it. And I'd *VERY* strongly 
advise not attempting it - SCSI and "Unidisk" are *VERY* different, 
electrically speaking. Plugging one into the other is a real good way to 
fry both pieces of gear.

> I would also like to use it on a Macintosh so if any of you guys know of a
> disk that I should need to run that hard drive on any other Apple/Macintosh
> computer.  

Plug it into a Mac, and it'll work just fine.

Be aware that if you're intending to switch from Mac to GS more than 
once, you're going to be stuck with ProDOS/MacOS only on it, unless you 
partition it out for DOS 3.3/ProDOS/MacOS. MacOS recognizes ProDOS 
volumes, although it doesn't go both ways. MacOS can write to a ProDOS 
formatted volume, and ProDOS can read it, but ProDOS can't write to (or 
read from) a MacOS volume without a reformat. Neither MacOS or ProDOS 
(other than a few very specific programs that run under ProDOS, such as 
CopyII+ and similar) can "talk to" a DOS 3.3 disk at all, or vice-versa. 

> Sorry if it was unappropriate to post this 'Mac' computer
> question on this newsgroup, but I think that it is appropriate since it does
> relate to the Apple II.

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