Re: Hardware question.

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com>]

SlickRCBD wrote:
> 
> In article <3D5EAC45.EA7D06EC@intergate.ca>, Wayne Stewart
> <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:
> 
> > SlickRCBD wrote:
> > >
> > > I and a friend were looking through some of our collective junk, and we
> > > came accross two things that we're wondering if it's possible to combine
> > > them into a useful item.
> > >
> > > I have a broken external A&E 3.5" 800K drive, and he has a working
> > > internal AppleDisk 800K drive from a Macintosh SE/30, but no computer
> > > capable of housing it. Is it possible to put the internal drive in the A&E
> > > case and make it a working external drive that we could with either his
> > > old Performa 405 or my Apple IIGS?, or would it be too difficult for two
> > > guys with little hardware expereince beyond installing cards, RAM chips, &
> > > swapping drives from internal bays (I've done macs, he's done PCs, both
> > > DOS & Windows era machines)?
> > >
> > > Seems a shame to have these peices of hardware laying around useless when
> > > we could put them to work.
> >
> > I'm afraid not. If your AE drive is like mine the drive mechanism itself
> > has
> > a 34 pin connector while Apple drive mechanisms use 20 pin connectors.
> >
> > What's the problem with the AE drive?
> >
> >         Wayne
> I don't know what's wrong with it, I just know that it won't read or write
> disks. As for a 34 pin connector, how is it that I can hook it up to the
> IIGS smart port (though now I'd be hooking it up to the PCT and leaving my
> superdrive connected to the card in slot 5)
> 
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The connector that is diffferent is the one from the drive mechanism
itself to the cable inside the drive cabinet.  The one on the outside of
the cabinet is the same.  But to swap the drives, you would either need
the working interface card/cables from inside the AE drive, or some way
to adapt the 34 pin AE used to the 20 pin Apple used.