Re: Help with GS and Mac

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <a3u77p$61l$1@cronkite.temple.edu>,
Seonho Choi  <schoi004@typhoon.ocis.temple.edu> wrote:
>As to this issue, I did a test a while ago.
>
> - I replaced manual inject floppy drive on my PowerPC with auto inject 
>   floppy from old IIci and then tried to make GS disks. The result was a 
>   failure as I expected. Although auto inject floppy drive is in, the ROM
>   routine of the new macintosh does not use unique feature of auto 
>   inject floppy drive, it treats it as manual inject floppy drive.
>
>Here is a question to Mac experts. Is it possible to extract floppy drive 
>control routine from old Mac ROM's and use it on new Macs? 

It wouldn't be the ROM, it would be the SWIM (Sanders/Wozniak Integrated
Machine) or lack of same.  If you don't have a SWIM, you're out of luck.

BTW auto-inject/manual inject has little to do with it.  Apple went to
manual inject before dropping the 800K floppy format.

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