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Subject: 800K external -->  800K internal...
Summary: Question:  800K ext-> 800K int?????
Keywords: 800K floppy drive
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.203618.2258@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 20:36:18 GMT
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 I have a question about the possibility of using an old 800k external
Apple floppy drive as a replacement for an internal drive:

One of the internal floppies in my SE has died.  I have an Apple 800K
external drive that I used to use when I had a Mac+.  I thought that
the drive mechanisms would be exactly the same (ext and int) so that if
I took the external drive out of its case and put it in the metal frame of
the blown internal that everything should work.  I tried it and no!  THe
drives themselves look identical, and the external (mounted internally) still
works fine if it is connected to the ext. port.  I have been told that the
way that tthe computer handles the interna and external ports is the same. ie
that is no real difference between the ports.  I looked long and hard at the
external drive and there don't seem to be any differnces (like no dip switches
or anything)   I think that it should work, and so do a couple of Apple 
technicians (not actually the company) whom I have talked to.  

Can anyone out there help me????  Is there anyway that I can mount my old
800k internally?  Why wouldn't this work?  WHy doesn't it work?? HELP!!


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