Re: Internal Mac Floppy Drive on IIGS - cable pinout ?

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Carlos Duarte  Chester (cd@pobox.com) writes:
> Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<pb14-030420031659540234@mac180.cc.le.ac.uk>...
> 
>> The Apple 3.5" 800K drive case contains an extra board (very small)
>> that controls how the drive behaves when the disk eject button is
>> pressed. You will need to make something that simulates this board.
>> I've not seen the schematics for this board posted anywhere but perhaps
>> somebody has made them.
> 
> I thought this board was just to make up for the differences between
> Macs and Apple IIs, since my drive's eject button seems to be not
> software-related (it works even with the drive unplugged, just as a PC
> one). But you are probably right, there must be something there that I
> would need.
> 
Maybe I missed something.  The Mac drives have a motor for the eject,
and that's controlled by a command from the software.  The Apple II drives
have a mechanical eject button, just like most other floppy drives.
If you use a Mac drive with an Apple II of some sort, there has to
be some way of controlling that eject motor by a front panel switch,
rather than software.  And that's where that little board must come from.

   Michael