>For those who like challenges, a fellow on the Mac Managers list is >trying to get a 5 1/4 in floppy working, so he can transfer old >educational software to a Apple II emulator. Talk about a challenge. He >found a Dayna drive, but no drivers. Any ideas I am sure would be >welcome, and I can pass them on to him.
Check www.macdrivermuseum.com. I don't see a driver for the Dayna drive on the site (didn't look very hard either), but there is info on joining their email list, and I think there is something like 600 people on the list, so asking for said drivers might not be a bad idea. And of course, did they check Dayna for drivers? They were bought by Intel, but last I knew, Intel had a pretty decent collection of old Dayna drivers available for download. However, unless the Dayna drive is spec'd for reading Apple II disks, it may not work anyway. The Apple II drive used GRC(?) formatting, which IIRC, is not compatible with a standard PC floppy drive. So if the Dayna drive was designed to let you mount PC 5.25 disks, then chances are really good that it won't let you mount an Apple II disk. There are options. 1: Get an Apple IIe Emulator board and drive and a computer that it will work in (LC PDS slot is needed, and the machine has to support 24 bit mode). Then mount the disks using the board, and copy to the hard drive. 2: Get a 3.5" drive for the Apple II (or get another Apple II series that has both, like the IIgs) and copy the disks to 3.5", which the Mac can then read natively (the Mac will read ProDOS 3.5" disks). 3: Go to ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net and see if they software he is looking to transfer has already been done. He may just be able to download disk images of it without having to do the work himself. 4: Go to www.faqs.org and check the Apple2 FAQ archive. (click the "FAQs A-D" link on the right side, then look for the Apple2 one in the lists). I'm sure somewhere in that FAQ it will give a number of suggestions on how to transfer the disks for use in an emulator. 5: Find someone already setup to do this, and ask/pay them to do it (this is not an offer by me, I'm not currently setup for it) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
