Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!pasteur!agate!web-2f.berkeley.edu!c60c-3aw From: c60c-3aw@web-2f.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple IIGS drives AGAIN!!! Summary: clarify... Message-ID: <15997@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 25 Oct 88 20:47:16 GMT Article-I.D.: agate.15997 References: Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 33 In article sk2f+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Seth D. Kadesh") writes: >I tried the Mac drives, and they didn't work on my IIGS. Either they were old >Mac drives, or there still is a difference between Apple II and Mac drives. No >one here at Carnegie-Mellon seems to know, but the computer store is looking >into it. Hmm. Are these the ones with the horizontal lines (same design as //gs)? The older (Mac-only) ones don't work at all. [stuff removed] >As far as my knowledge goes, the drive sold by Central Point Software is just a >drive (old Mac drive). It only supports what ever the controller card does. It You're right here. The problem is that it isn't hooked into the smartport, so some software doesn't recognize it. I do have the newer card by the way. [yet more stuff removed] >> > Let the NeXT machine from Apple be a faster IIGS! > >> Or an Apple II emulator for the Amiga... (other half of the :-|) > >As for me, I think I'm going to stick to the Apple II. I would be sticking to the Apple II. It's the dinosaur "gs" part that can go out the window. >-- Seth Kadesh sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu -- fadden@zen.berkeley.edu [crashed] c60c-3aw@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (Outgoing E-mail has about a 40% chance of successfully reaching you. Feel free to respond through the mail, but I probably can't answer.)