Re: Disk ][ (Notice I spelled it right? :) ) Query...

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <_NWdnRyXFcXGol6jXTWcog@comcast.com>,
 "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> Don,
> 
> Don't open those drives. I'll send you a 5.25" disk drive controller
> for $5. The Apple 5.25" drive plugs right in and the second drive into
> the first one. However, no 5.25 drive controller will operate a 3.5"
> drive. You need a Liron for Unidisk, UDC or Apple 3.5" controller
> for the Apple 3.5" drive. You can blow up drives and controllers messing
> around with cables.

Bill...
"I Ain't Skairt" is the first thought that comes to mind. :)

But seriously, I'm competent enough in electronics that I'm only 
slightly shy about going into the guts of my PowerMacs (let alone the 
crude-by-comparison //e and cards it contains) with a soldeing iron when 
I think it's needed. That's not an attempt at a boast, just a statement 
of fact. Electronics work is no kind of "dark mystery" to me, and I'm 
quite competent enough to design and scratch-build my own hardware at 
the chip and wiring level. A cable/adapter should present little or no 
difficulty.

But I would like to hear what the Apple number on the card you propose 
sending me is... It's very possible that I've already got one (I'm 
specifically thinking of the 655-0101-C that calls itself an "I/O 
Controller") sitting here in "Humpty". I'm just needing to figure out if 
the "Disk ][ Interface Card 650-X104-8" sitting in "Dumpty" is capable 
of controlling the same drives, given a way to connect them to it. If it 
is, there's no sense whatsoever in my buying another card (regardless of 
how reasonable the price) when I've got at least 3 of the Disk ][ 
Interfaces sitting here that I can see by just turning my head, and 
another 4-5 of them that I could have in my grubby little paws in a 
matter of seconds by simply walking into the next room and picking them 
up.

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