Re: mac 3.5" drive on a //gs ?????

[rdwill@igate1.hac.com (David Williams)]

In Article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950929171615.27308C-100000@dogwood>, Robert Gordon
Marsh II <rmarsh10@grove.ufl.edu> wrote:
>How can I tell if a 3.5" drive that is on a Mac will work on my //gs ?
>The drive is not close, I can't just plug it in. My last drive has died,
>I have a new sony internal guts enroute, but need another drive for a second
>computer so I don't have to plug/unplug the 3.5" drive every day.
>        Thanks for any help,  robert

I've been using a Mac 3.5" drive with a IIGS.  It is a newer 800K drive
with the light colored case and an additional female connector behind a
removable door in the back of the drive.  To make things more complicated,
the 800K drive that was in there was replaced by a 1.4M drive out of a
Mac IIci.  It works fine as a 1.4M external drive on a Mac, but it won't
recognise a 1.4M disk when used with a IIGS.  I haven't used a IIGS
enougth to know if I'm doing something wrong though, but I guess you
have at least one answer that it will work at least as an 800K drive.
(and it didn't smoke when I plugged it in. :-)

David Williams
Delco Electronics
rdwill@igate1.hac.com