Re: Apple External 3.5" drive

[jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Wong)]

btomlin@crl.com (Bruce Tomlin) writes:
>That's interesting.  So how did you eject the disks?  Or does the IIgs 
>know how already?  I've never used a IIgs before, just IIs and Macs.

It shouldn't be surprising if it's a recent drive.

>Of course, the real test is:  will an HD drive work?  It should at least
>need a SWIM chip (the same one used to upgrade a SE to support 1.4 meg
>drives) to replace the old IWM chip, but it may need a new driver, too. 

An external SuperDrive should work just fine, even without a SWIM
chip.  It will, of course, not be able to read (or write) high
density disks, though.
-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)