Oh dear! Please, don't chop it! There are some Amiga users out there who would love to get a hold of that one. Maybe someone could do you a swap for an Apple one. My feeling is that it is in the ROMs as the thing needed to be able to know how to work for the computer without loading drivers and the Macintosh formatting and Amiga formatting of the floppy disks are not compatible. So my advice is to try and find an Amiga user that you could make really happy.
Cheers, Andrew. On 2009-10-30, at 9:26 AM, Adam wrote: > > I have had an external floppy drive sitting in a box for a very long > time. I'm not sure where it came from, I think it may have just been > handed to me without comment at one point. I believe it is from an > Amiga based on the cable connector. I'll have to count again when I > get home, but I'm pretty sure it's the DB-23 connector. I'll take the > cover off and see if there are any brand labels anywhere. My question > is, can I, with the appropriate DB-19 connector, chop the end of the > cable off and repin it to the Apple external spec? I'm not sure how > much software was loaded into ROMs on these things back in the day, so > would it be worth my while to try? I found the pinouts for both drives > here: > > http://www.pinouts.org.uk/index.php?page=Amiga_External_Drive > > and here: > > http://www.pinouts.org.uk/index.php?page=Macintosh_External_Floppy > > It looks like the functions the Mac needs to use are available on the > Amiga drive. Should I (or rather, my electronics engineer friend) > attempt it, or would I just be destroying something that someone else > may want? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
