On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 02:53 AM, Jesse Lucke wrote:
> There are definate clearance problems. The first Mac I bought, an LCIII,
> came with a manual-inject drive. It was supposed to use an auto-inject
> drive; consequently, you could not insert a floppy: the height of the
> drive
> mechanism did not match the height of the opening. The only other issue
> I'm
> aware of is that the manual-override is in a different place.
I've never needed to used the manual override on a Mac floppy disk drive
apart from whwn I cycle the mechanism during cleaning. I lie actually,
I've used it a time or two on an SE/30 but that is just because I do
silly things with mine ;). It's no effort to flip the lid off an LC to
eject the disk anyway, unless you have it at the bottom of a Flat Pack
Mac Stack (patent pending) or have a 12" RGB, or in my LCIII+'s case a
17" SVGA, screen on top of it.
> However, it might not be such a problem going in the other direction:
> the
> floppy slots seem taller on the manual-inject Macs. They may be enough
> taller that an auto-inject drive would work fine; the height difference
> isn't large as I recall.
Sounds like an issue for FLat Pack Macs to me. I'll get to it and try
swapping the floppy from my LC and that in my LCIII+, they are the two
different types so should "make it clear on clearance" <trademark ;)>.
I also think the clearance issue may have something to do with the
respective drive trays that the two types mount in, the auto drive has
an upper dust shield built into the try which is inverted 'u' shape,
similar to that use in and SE/30 with the addition of the clip edges.
The manual drive has a full housing around the drive anyway so the tray
is a simple 'u' shape underslung.
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