Re: Apple IIgs + 1.44mb PowerMac Drive

["Hellfire" <nospam@dontwantit.net>]

It was a Sony drive, one was from a IIfx and the other was from a Mac
Classic. I do know that the powermac drives (with the black plastic in
front) do not work for this, they are physically smaller.

    -Regards, Matt

"Hellfire" <nospam@dontwantit.net> wrote in message
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> I found that if you disassemble the casing, you can put a superdrive in
> place of the original drive. Works great!
>
>     -Matt
>
> "Alastair Boyanich" <boyanich@murdoch.edu.au> wrote in message
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> >
> > Hi..I'm trying to get my IIgs running again and discovered that my
> > floppy drive's heads are mangled. It appears to have the same plug
> > connector of the newer 68k and PPC mac's. So I plugged one in. But
> > nothing boots, I get blue screen, whizzing apple and the "Boong!"
> > noise. Anyone know if there's a conversion kit you can make? Any
> > help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Ideally it'd be nice to have 1.44mb of storage on a IIgs floppy,
> > but I'd be more than happy just to get the thing running again with
> > 800k disks.
> >
> > Alastair Boyanich
> >
> >
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> >   adb -w -P "world> " -k /dev/meta/galaxy/ksyms /dev/god/brain
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> >   Alastair Boyanich, Murdoch University Perth Western Australia
> >                   boyanich@murdoch.edu.au
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