Re: Using Mac 20 meg HD on A2 drive port???

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stephen e buggie <buggie@argo.unm.edu> wrote:
: Some of the older Macintoshes have an external hard drive that connects
: via the db-19 external drive port.  These units are for sale CHEAPLY on
: the Mac marketplace network.

: I've heard that these units wont work on Apple II, but WHY NOT?

Aside from the post where someone got one to work on a UDC, I have never
been able to get one to work on a IIe with the Liron Card (the story I
heard, and it will not work with one, nor the Superdrive Card.  The SC20
is NOT equal to SCHD 20.  I could likely find a few if people needed them
for their early macs (what they were designed to work with).  BTW, these
drives are really slow Hard Drives for use with the Macs before SCSI
interfaces were added.

Chet

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