Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!uop!quack!mrapple From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Roll your own Apple floppy drives. Possible? Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 90 03:26:47 GMT Organization: The Duck Pond, Stockton, CA Lines: 16 How difficult is it to go to, for example, Fry's and pick up a 3.5" bare drive mechanism (or 5.25") and hook it up to my Apple smartport? Does it matter tremendously that such drives don't usually have self-eject mechanisms? Can anyone recommend a course of action on this idea? Secondly, I have a Disk ][ hooked up to my //gs smartport. Why doesn't GS/OS talk to it properly? Can this be fixed? Thanks in advance. -- Nick Sayer | Disclaimer: "Don't try this at home, | RIP: Mel Blanc mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | kids. This should only be done by | 1908-1989 N6QQQ [44.2.1.17] | trained, professional idiots." | May he never 209-952-5347 (Telebit) | --Plucky Duck | be silenced.