Re: IIC exteral floppy and Mac SE?

[Nick <spam@ix.netcom.com>]

No stock macintoshes are able to use 5.25" disk drives, despite the plug
"compatibility" with the notable exception of a Macintosh LC class machine
with a IIe card.



butera@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Hi folks.
>
> I am trying to "resurrect" a couple Apple IIs (IIe and IIc).
>
> I have a working Mac SE, with Disk Copy and ProDos 3.2 disk images
> (from www.info.apple.com) ready to be copied to floppies.
>
> I have an external IIc 5.25" floppy drive that connects to the
> floppy port connector on the back of the SE.
>
> Is this supposed to work "out of the box"?  The drive access
> light works when the machine accesses the drive but ....
>
> 1. The Mac repeatedly asks me if I want to eject or initialize the
> disk.  It doesn't matter if a disk is in there or not, or if
> the drive door is open or closed.
>
> 2. What type of floppies do I need?  It could not format an old PC
> (360K DS/DD) floppy -- this might be related to the issue in #1.
>
> Is there some sort of hardware/software option I haven't considered,
> or is the drive just broken?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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