Re: Mac HD #M0135

[shack@onyx-206.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

: >Good grief, we got another person trying to use a hard disk 20 on an Apple
: >II?!? People, these DO NOT work on IIs. End of story. These are kind of
: >collector's items these days, so find an old Mac user to sell it to and put
: >the money in toward a SCSI drive which will work.

: Unless you have a UDC, that is.  The Laser 128 should work
: too, but I dunno because its UDC has different firmware.

I take it you have a hard disk 20 and a UDC on hand and have tried it and
found that it will work? Or is this idle speculation?

And what if our friend Adalbert doesn't have a UDC? Kinda makes it moot even
if it should happen to work eh?

: Apparently, the HD20 looks like an old Mac floppy drive, so
: the UDC sees it.

Hint: MacOS 7.5.5 supports 800K external floppy drives, but won't talk to
a hard disk 20.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net