Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!agate!web-3d.berkeley.edu!c60c-3aw From: c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple IIGS and Apple Drives Summary: Here I go again Keywords: stupid CPS drives Message-ID: <15915@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 24 Oct 88 02:02:41 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 In article sk2f+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Seth D. Kadesh") writes: >Which 3.5 drives can run off the GS smartport? I had a compatibility problem >with my Central Point Software drives - [stuff removed] > What is the difference between Apple brand Mac drives, and >the 3.5 drive Apple makes for the GS? Could I wire a connection between the As of two years or so ago, there is no difference. Apple sells the same drive (AppleDisk 3.5) for both the //gs and the Macintosh. On a Mac the eject button is deactivated, but the instruction manual contains info for both kinds of computers. Part of Apple's effort to spend as little time as possible on the //gs by having it use Mac hardware (half :-|). > A comment about my plight. I don't think it unreasonable to expect that >software manufacturers make their products run on similar systems. I must >point out that only COPY PROTECTED SOFTWARE (3.5 disk format) would not run Is Diversi-Cache copy protected? I can name a couple of things which don't work even after the copy protection is removed... it isn't the software manufacturers, it's the drive. Not only doesn't it go where the //gs expects it, I don't believe it supports the full range of calls (there are extended calls for the //gs SmartPort). I still don't understand why Apple is the only one who can make a 3.5 drive which plugs into the SmartPort directly. > Let the NeXT machine from Apple be a faster IIGS! Or an Apple II emulator for the Amiga... (other half of the :-|) > --Seth Kadesh > --sk2f@+andrew.cmu.edu (it's correct, it just may not be in order!)