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From: pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Paul G. Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: 800K external drive moved inside Mac II
Message-ID: <1030@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 88 12:52:44 GMT
Reply-To: pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Paul G. Nevai)
Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computer Lab, Columbus, OH
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This is what I did:

I took apart my 800K drive, took out the drive unit itself, went to my dealer
(MicroCenter in Columbus, OH), purchased a Mac II metal case for the drive and a
ribbon cable (total = $11.50), then put my drive into it and then put the whole
thing in my Mac II. 

It's simple. Now I have a 2nd external drive for my Mac II for $11.50. BUT IT
DOESN'T WORK!!!! How come? It wants to initialize every disk and then fails to do
do so!!!

(When I took the inverse of all operations and transformed it back to a 800K 
external drive for the Mac Plus, it worked again.)

Advice from anyone?

P.S. I know you smart Apple guys read this, please respond. I promise I won't
make it public if it's confidential. On the other hand if it's not, then I'll
let everyone know how to save a couple of hundreds of bucks.

Paul Nevai                                pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu
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