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floppy drive questions..



hi everyone,

i have a bunch of apple floppys in my garage.  2 duodrives (found out they work
fine with my 2gs, what about my 2c?), and a bunch of 5 1/4 floppy drives, and a
few 3 1/2 inch drives.

my question deals with the 3 1/2 drives.  all of them have the 20 (19) pin
d-sub connectors on the end of their connector cables.  the strange thing is i
am NOT sure which ones are MAC only or apple 2gs only?

i have 3- 3 1/2 drives that say 800kb on the back of them but they have NO
button to eject the floppys.  i would assume that they would be mac only
drives?

i also have 5 or 6 - 3 1/2 drives that DON"T say anything on the bottom of them
in regards to size or what platform they are for.

my big question is which systems are these for and what size (kb-wise) are the
5 or 6 drives that don't list their sizes?  i see on the various faqs available
online that you should use 800kb drives whenever possible, but mine look like
macintosh and not apple sinc ethey don't have the eject buttons.

also when the drives with the eject buttons are used, will the eject button
only work when the drive is powered up?

please reply to bobo_snyder at hotmail dot com if you want to email me.

thanks all
bo