Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Roll your own Apple floppy drives. Possible? Message-ID: <1990Dec4.062251.22618@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 4 Dec 90 06:22:51 GMT References: Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 24 mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) writes: >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? Don't. You will probably fry your computer trying. Unless you can get enough documentation on that bare drive to know what pins match to what you are probably not going to get anywhere. >Secondly, I have a Disk ][ hooked up to my //gs smartport. Why >doesn't GS/OS talk to it properly? Can this be fixed? Huh? Don't you have AppleDisk5.25 in your system/drivers folder? Launch installer and install Appledisk 5.25 on your boot disk. When you reboot you'll get a little icon of the unidisk 5.25 (looks like a half-height 5.25). Double click on it to get it to check for a new disk, because the 5.25 drives don't have disk-presence detect hardware. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu