Re: Need help identifying this drive?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> The AE drive even looks almost exactly like a Superdrive.
>
>Well, this looks different...the case reminds me of a drive I once had for
>my Tandy, kinda bulky, rounded corners and edges, and a courser textured
>plastic. I also noticed that when I held it in one hand and the superdrive
>external in the other, it was much, much noticably lighter.
>The connector has 19 pins and the molded plastic part of it looks
>virtually identical to the connector on a Apple 3.5 external. (well,
>except for the little disk logo, and the thumbscrews on this one have a
>texture to them)...I know that part means virtually nothing though.
>It doesn't seem to be high-desnity as it only has one set of detector pins
>(for the write-protect switch)...so, would I be able to use this on my
>IIgs or IIe? I don't want to hook something up that might harm it though.

A generic Mac external drive (800k), it will not work on
the IIGS floppy port or on the IIe with any controller
except the Universal Disk Controller (UDC) card sold
under the Laser brand name by Video Technologies.

>Oh, and additionally, another question...
>I noticed that my Apple External Superdrive has a cap over the daisychain
>port on it. Did apple do this with the Mac version of the 800k external as
>well? Is there a port under there if I pry the cap off? Does it work?

The AE high density drive has a daisy chain port.  I
always thought the genuine Superdrive had one too.
You try prying off the cap to see if it does.  But if it
does not, can you put the cap back on?  The case
will look kind of funny with a hole in the back.  ;-)