Re: SCSI 5.25"

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Bryan Villados wrote:

> Anyone here tried using the Dayna DaynaFile? I have one of these... It's a
> 5.25" low-density drive, SCSI-1 based, that when connected to an Apple
> Macintosh it'll let you read MS-DOS diskettes. This drive was actually
> better than the Apple 5.25 PC drive for two reasons. One, the Dayna unit
> worked on any Macintosh while the Apple drive only worked on a Mac II or Mac
> SE with the proprietary controller. Second, the Dayna unit mounted the
> floppy onto the desktop, while the Apple drive required the File Transfer
> utility that came shipped with Macintosh System 6.x.x.
>
> Has anyone here tried the DaynaFile on an Apple II system with a SCSI
> controller? On the Macintosh, it required a very specific driver to use the
> thing, therefore I don't think the Mac treated the drive like any other SCSI
> hard disk device.

That's the one I was trying last night.

    Wayne