Re: floppy drive questions..

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Nailslover" <nailslover@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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?

Beige colored with no eject button are definitely Macintosh drives ONLY.

> 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.

No part numbers or manufacturer? Do they have a button? They did
make third party Mac drives. I have one for a Mac and it does have a
button.  If they are white with a eject button that is not in line with the
disk entry then it is a Unidisk 3.5.  If it has a eject button and is next
to the disk entry, it is an Apple 3.5.

> 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.

They did make 1.44 meg Mac floppy drives. Do you own a Mac to
test it on?

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

Yup. Auto eject feature is still employed but with a button to initiate
the sequence.

> please reply to bobo_snyder at hotmail dot com if you want to email me.
>
> thanks all
> bo
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