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From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How's THIS for incompatibility: Mirror 800AE 800K drives and Mac SE/30!
Keywords: Mac SEx Mirror 800K drives
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Date: 3 May 89 19:13:54 GMT
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Reply-To: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
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>So I called Mirror technologies, and was told that the Magnum 800AE was
>incompatible with the SE/30.  Runs fine with a Plus or SE, and they think it
>works with a IIcx (II and IIx machines got no external floppy port) -- but

Actually, I'd bet their drive is incompatible with the new SWIM disk controller
chip found in the IIx, IIcx, and SE/x (oops, I mean SE/30). And Mirror is not
a company that I would put faith in doing anything about the problem...

Speaking of external SuperDrives, has anyone out there got any experience with
the Peripheral Land SCSI SuperDrive? I saw it at MacWorld/SF, and PLI was
claiming that it would run faster through the SCSI port than an Apple drive
would going through the serial disk controller. It also had the advantage of
being usable for Plus, SE, and Mac II owners, and another nice thing about it
was the $399 price tag...

Robert

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