Re: Apple IIgs + 1.44mb PowerMac Drive

[Sisko@Celestial.Temple.org (SlickRCBD)]

In article <3ce14485$1@news.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote:

> "Alastair Boyanich" <boyanich@murdoch.edu.au> wrote in message
> 3CE17800.9307887F@murdoch.edu.au">news:3CE17800.9307887F@murdoch.edu.au...
> > Hellfire wrote:
> > >
> > > I found that if you disassemble the casing, you can put a superdrive in
> > > place of the original drive. Works great!
> > >
> > >     -Matt
> > >
> >
> > Hellfire:
> >
> > I've tried this..already. Just the Apple won't accept it. Hmm. Did you
> modify
> > the drive at all for the insert notifyer?
> >
> >
> 
> Your floppy drive is too new. You need an older one from an 030 or 040 Mac.
> As others have said, it has to be the type that sucks the disk in, not the
> kind where you push the disk all the way in and it clicks into place.  As
> others have said, when you do find the right type of drive,  it will only
> work as an 800K drive with the built-in IIgs floppy port.
> -Paul
On a related note, would it be possible to put the 3.5" drive from a
Macintosh SE or Classic (I don't remember off-hand which it was salvaged
from) inside the case of a nonfunctional AE 3.5" 800k drive and use it on
a IIGS?

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