Re: Apple 5.25 PC Disk Drive and a IIgs

[jruschme@exit109.com (John Ruschmeyer)]

In article <380307A3.74FD840B@racine.ra.it>,
Alberto Cavalcoli  <acavalcoli@racine.ra.it> wrote:
>Rob ha scritto:
>> 
>> I've come across a 5.25 PC disk drive that was made by Apple.  I'm
>> assuming this allowed a Mac to read PC formatted disks.  The connection
>> appears to be SCSI.  Can this be connected to a Apple IIgs with a SCSI
>> card? Will it work and/or what is needed to get it to work?  Thanks
>
>Nope. If you open it you'll find a standard 5.25" 1.44 Mb PC drive. It's
>not a SCSI bus but a standard PC floppy bus. You'll can connect the
>Apple Mac 5.25 Floppy to your IIgs only if you have a SHH Blue Disk
>interface.
>Remember: you must make a custom adapter for the floppy connector.

A couple of corrections...

It's actually a 360K drive.

The pinout of the Apple 5.25" PC Drive is available on Apple's TIL Archive.
It's a 39-pin cable which carries data and power connections, very similar
to the pinout of IBM's external drives.

Couldn't you also use the drive on a PC Transporter, given the apporpriate 
cable conversion?

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