Re: Apple / Mac Question(s)

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <y5GGc.727$5a5.43@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
 "Jonathan Herr" <dracosilver@wi.rr.com> wrote:

> "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'.

In light of that new (and previously unstated...) information, my 
commentary then become s null and void. It really helps f you give full 
details when asking a question like this...

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