I seem to recall warnings that state don't use the Apple II 5.25 drive
with any Macintosh. It will fry the floppy driver chip.
Interestingly, the Mac Plus can daisy chain several external 3.5
floppy drives, but the SE/30 can only handle one.
Mike
On Thursday, November 3, 2005, at 07:45
If you had a LC series with an Apple II emulation card they supported a
5.25 via a dedicated drive connector on the Apple II card. Otherwise I
think you are correct that the other Macs did not support 5.25 drives.
-Ben Franske
Ken wrote:
My Reply follows quote. On 03/11/2005 19:10 [EMAIL
There was a PC format 5.25 drive that had a special card and a very
wide connector that came out in that wide cutout on the back of the
compacts. You could access stuff on your IBM-formatted floppies on your
Mac. Probably allowed you to use Mac86 and Mac286 with them as well. I
have one of the
Hi,
I have a LC II that has an Apple IIe emulator card in it. I was just
wondering where I could get the 5.25 floppy drive for it and the Y
cable and how much they would cost.
Thanks,
James
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I sold one of these [an SE-bus PC drive card] on eBay a while back. I
don't think it would have worked in an SE/30, but there may have been
a version for that machine.
Do *not* connect the drive to the regular floppy port.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=51046item=5228234261
I have a DaynaFile, which is a SCSI device with Mac drivers and which
consists of one 5.25 drive and one 3.5 drive. The 5.25 can read
DOS 360K floppies and Apple ][ floppies. The 3.5 would read DOS 720
and Mac or DOS 1.4 MB diskettes but had pretty much stopped working
as of the last time I
In any event, DO NOT use the 5.25 apple drive on a mac's built in floppy port.
Doing so can destroy the floppy controller chip on the motherboard (the pinouts
are not the same).
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