Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!well!mo
From: mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Convert 800k external to Mac II (left) internal?
Message-ID: <4838@well.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 20:08:35 GMT
References: <8712232026.AA01974@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman)
Organization: The Maurizio T. Butthead Computing Companies
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hunt@rsts32.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
> 
>   I have an old Mac Plus 800k external Apple drive and was wondering if it
>can be modified to use as a Mac II internal (left) drive.  
>[...story about how it doesn't work...] 
>Obviously, the drive is seen by the Mac II and works partially,  what has to
>be done to make it work correctly?? Any ideas??
> 
Phil, I tried and failed.  It seems there is a subtle but
significant difference between the "old" Mac Plus-era 800k 
drives and the newer ones which are sold with the IIGS and 
SE as an external... the ones with the eject button.  If 
you examine Sony's part number on the side of the drive, 
you'll see it's a different drive.  Someone told me that 
the older drives will work inside an SE, and I tried doing
that, but it didn't work there either.  That's a real puzzle
since it does work on the SE as an external.  I ended up 
swapping with a friend who had a newer external.  As for the 
bracket, I'd try getting an actual bracket, which is the same
as the one for the SE.

Good luck, and let us know if you come up with any other 
results.


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