Re: Apple / Mac Question(s)

["Jonathan Herr" <dracosilver@wi.rr.com>]

"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:rgFGc.933$54.10278@typhoon.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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If i remember right, there was a scsi version and a non-scsi version... and
i have the non-scsi version.

Plus the macs I am referring to are the the 'Macintosh Plus' and the
'Macintosh 1K'.

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