Re: Apple External 3.5" drive

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

mcfudge@wbb.com wrote:

: SH>I got a superdrive card and bare superdrive mech from csa2.marketplace
: SH>recently
: SH>and swapped the drive into a former 800K case, with daisychain card, eject
: SH>button, etc. I have it connected to the card and an 800K connected to it.
: SH>Works
: SH>just like I had spent $350 for a bona fide external superdrive.

: Randy, I am about to do the same thing you have described here, but I am
: not sure about one thing.

: I have the 3.5 drive card, and I'll have the 1.44 drive mechanism, with
: the external case and cord.  Do I used the same logic board that is in
: my 800k 3.5 drive, or is there a 1.44mb logic board?

They use the same card. Or at least they can use the same card. I talked a
buddy of mine who had picked up some spare unidisk and grey 3.5 cases as
service parts into giving me a home for my superdrive. He cracked open one
of the grey ones which had an 800K in it and we slapped in the superdrive.
It works just like one you coulda gotten at a dealer when they were available.
Then he put the 800K into a spare unidisk case.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
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