Re: Honest foks it is on topic (kinda)

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Bart <stopspam@thesource.gs> wrote:

> At first this may seem the wrong forum but the use I am going to put it to is
> directly (sortta kinda) related:
> 
> 2 Years ago I found an old Apple Macintosh PC Drive.  This is the 360k floppy
> drive in a package similar to the 5.25 Unidisk with a whopping HUGE connector
> on it.  One of the very early cross platform dodges.  I found the drive, not
> the driver card :(
> 
> Yesterday I found a Nubus card that will work with one!  I mounted it in a
> Quadra 950 running System, 7.5.3 but do not see a way of making it "wake up"

You may need to run the Apple File Exchange program (from System 7.1 or
earlier) in order to use this drive.  I only used it briefly with these
drives (on someone else's machine) and don't know whether it also
requires special driver software.  If it does, then in theory those
drivers should be available from Apple's FTP server (if you can find
them).

In order for AFE to work with System 7.5 or later, you might need to
disable the PC Exchange control panel and any related extensions.  I've
had AFE running but thanks to PC Exchange, it thinks all "foreign" disks
are Mac ones.

> Can you format in ProDOS on one? Read ProDOS (preformated elsewhere)?

As long as AFE lets you format a ProDOS disk and doesn't have any
hard-wired rules like "thy 360K drive shall be for MS-DOS only", it
should be able to create a 360K ProDOS disk.  In theory, you could read
this in a 5.25" TransDrive connected to a PC Transporter on the IIgs.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz