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- From: owen@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Owen S. Nishioka)
- Subject: Re: High Density floppy drive in a Mac II?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.235751.8941@riacs.edu>
- Keywords: Doesn't work right...
- Sender: news@riacs.edu
- Organization: Nasa-Ames Research Center
- References: <18745@bunny.GTE.COM> <1992Aug25.153331.26181@riacs.edu> <1992Aug26.184349.21307@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 23:57:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.184349.21307@edsi.plexus.COM> trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper) writes:
- >owen@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Owen S. Nishioka) writes:
- >
- >>>and would like to install a High Density drive in it. When we put the HD
- >>>drive in, it refuses to read HD disks. It has a Rev A motherboard in it,
- >>>so I'm assuming we need a ROM upgrade, right? Or is there some other
- >>>way we can get the drive to work correctly? If not, any idea how much
- >>>an upgrade should/will cost? Thanks!!!!
- >
- >>In order to use a SuperDrive in a Mac II one would have to purchase a
- >>ROM upgrade. With the upgrade, one would get Mac IIx ROMs and the SWIM
- > :
- >>Another alternative if all you want is HD Ability, would be to look
- >>into Applied Engineerings Plus Drives or (Dayna?? There's at least one other
- >>company). Both drives are HighDensity Mac drives capable of reading IBM
- >>disks without the ROM upgrade.
- >
- >Only problem with the AE drive being that it is an EXTERNAL floppy drive,
- >and the Mac II does not have a floppy drive port. And I am not confident
- >you could effectively mount their mech inside a Mac II AND get the cabling
- >right, with any ease.
-
- AE sells for $19? a part that takes the second internal drive connecter
- to the outside of the mac via DB19. This makes your Mac II have an
- external drive port.
-
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