Re: Apple Disk Drive - Write protect override

[noone@nowhere.net]

Wayne, if you could send me a board from and older drive, I should be
able to compare and mod that one as well.  All we do is short out the
sensor.  I've done thismod to a couple different style drives.  I
developed this mod on a Laser 128, then did it to a IIc drive.  This
last one with pictures at the aforementioned website we with a drive I
had handy.

I've opened a duo disk and although the connector is labeld differently,
and there are two of them, the pins the sensor are on are the same, all
I have to do is trace the pins to a solderable place on the board.  I
may dig around the junque pile at AppleLinc and see if I can't find one
ofthe boards you mention and perform the modification to it as well.

Thanxk,
Ed

http://www.applelinc.org/UnidiskMod/UnidiskWPMod.htm



Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> > > I've done this many times.
> That would work fine with the platinum 5.25" drive containing the UniDisk
> analog board #2. The origional beige UniDisk used a different analog card.