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From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Roll your own Apple floppy drives. Possible?
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Date: 8 Dec 90 06:55:48 GMT
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|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?

Try impossible.  Apple uses a Sony mech floppy drive, which has variable speed
control... the speed of how fast the disk spins varies depending on where R/W
head is... OK, near impossible... it's just not practical, I think.  I beleive
AMR does something like this... doesn't work too great.  Needs a disk to be in
it or GSOS thinks there's an unformatted disk in it.

What do you mean by GSOS not talking to your Disk ][ drive???  You did put the
driver for the 5.25" disk, right?  Driver as in device driver, files found in
/System.Tools/System/Tools?

If you can't find it or don't know how, use the Installer program.

whitewolf@gnh-starport