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From: John.OMalley@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (John OMalley)
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Subject: Re: External 800K floppy on a Mac IIci -- should it work?
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Date: 29 Dec 90 04:40:17 GMT
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In article <18504@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
writes:
> I have a Cutting Edge external 800K floppy that I've migrated to my IIci.
It
> works sporadically at best. 
>
> So, the question: should this work, or should I pop for an external
> Superdrive? Who's to blame? Cutting Edge? Apple? gremlins?

Cutting Edge or gremlins, but not Apple this time.

A couple of years ago I had a Photon external 800K floppy drive.  Bought
it to use with a Mac 512K originally, and later ended up using it with a
Mac Plus.

At some point in time I connected the drive to an SE/30.  Didn't work.
But a standard Apple external 800K drive did work, so I assumed that the
third-party floppy drive had ROMs incompatible with '030 CPUs or something.

It used to be that a lot of companies slapped their name on an external
floppy drive mechanism made by one particular manufacturer, much the
same way that third-party hard drives are sold today.  Perhaps that's
the case for Rich's Cutting Edge drive, and he's got one of those older,
incompatible drives.

By the way, my IIcx has an internal SuperDrive and an external Apple 800K
drive.  Works just fine.  The same configuration should work fine on a
IIci, at least if the external drive is Apple's.


-John
John O'Malley          / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
omalley@cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-1787

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