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

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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> Carlos Duarte  Chester (cd@pobox.com) writes:
> > Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> >> 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.

The Apple II 3.5" 800k drive has motor driven inject-eject mechanism (at least
mine has).  It can definitely be controlled by software or the button.

Charlie