Re: Old non-SCSI Mac hard drive on IIc?

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4s6fp7$ri5@europa.frii.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:

>The 400K and beige 800K drives only work with a UDC card, they don't work on a
>unidisk card or floppy port. They possibly would work on a superdrive card,
>but I ain't even gonna risk frying mine to find out. The old drives have the
>the cable going directly into the drive mech, while new ones have a PC board
>in between, which allows daisychaining among other things. The grey 3.5 
>replaced the Mac only 800K, and does work with Macs and IIs, hence the name 
>"Apple 3.5 drive" as opposed to "Macintosh 800K" for the beige one.
>-- 
>Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
>shack@frii.com                                    when internet wasn't cool

Interesting side note: the cable that goes directly to the Macintosh 800k
disk drive can be used with an old Disk II and a hacksaw to plug it
into a diskport.  Can't quite daisychain it, unless it's the last drive,
but it works.

(One of these days, I'm going to sit down and figure out the finer points
of "that board" inside the Apple 3.5" drive and start making adapters
so that we can all use Mac 800k drives, which are cheap as crud, as well
as easily internally-mount the various floppy drives in a tower case
or othe such...)
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                                      --- SPQR (wbaguhn@nyx.net)