Re: Hardware question.

[DoNOT@feed.trolls (SlickRCBD)]

In article <3D5EAC45.EA7D06EC@intergate.ca>, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:

> SlickRCBD wrote:
> > 
> > I and a friend were looking through some of our collective junk, and we
> > came accross two things that we're wondering if it's possible to combine
> > them into a useful item.
> > 
> > I have a broken external A&E 3.5" 800K drive, and he has a working
> > internal AppleDisk 800K drive from a Macintosh SE/30, but no computer
> > capable of housing it. Is it possible to put the internal drive in the A&E
> > case and make it a working external drive that we could with either his
> > old Performa 405 or my Apple IIGS?, or would it be too difficult for two
> > guys with little hardware expereince beyond installing cards, RAM chips, &
> > swapping drives from internal bays (I've done macs, he's done PCs, both
> > DOS & Windows era machines)?
> > 
> > Seems a shame to have these peices of hardware laying around useless when
> > we could put them to work.
> 
> I'm afraid not. If your AE drive is like mine the drive mechanism itself
> has 
> a 34 pin connector while Apple drive mechanisms use 20 pin connectors.
> 
> What's the problem with the AE drive?
> 
>         Wayne
I don't know what's wrong with it, I just know that it won't read or write
disks. As for a 34 pin connector, how is it that I can hook it up to the
IIGS smart port (though now I'd be hooking it up to the PCT and leaving my
superdrive connected to the card in slot 5)

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