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From: jlh@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dayna 3.5 inch floppy drives vs PLI turbo-floppy
Message-ID: <1101@stech.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 10:25:49 GMT
References: <39627@bbn.COM>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <39627@bbn.COM>, cdh@bbn.com (Carl D. Howe) says:
> References:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a 3.5 in floppy drive I can connect to my Mac II via
> the SCSI port and use to read MS-DOS 3.5-in floppies from my wife's
> Toshiba T1000 laptop.  Has anyone had any experience with either the
> Dayna or PLI products that claim to do this?  The latest Macweek claims
> that Apple is licensing Dayna's software to make MS-DOS files appear
> on the desktop for use with their own superfloppy drive, but since I
> have a Mac II, rather than a IIx or IIcx, I can't get an external
> superfloppy (also noted in Macweek) because I don't have the right
> ROMs for it.  Given the choice of bringing my Mac II into the dealer,
> and buying an external drive, it seems like the external drive is
> the way to go.  However, I'd be interested to hear if anyone has had
> trouble with that type of approach.
> 
I have a Dayna File with 3.5" and 5.14" drives. It's great! I just shove in
the disk, wait a few seconds for the Mac to write a directory for the Finder
on the disk, and voila - there's the disk, on the desktop like any Mac disk.
I've not seen the PLI drive. It would appear to be cheaper, but I don't
know if it works as seamlessly as the Dayna File. (Note: Dayna's "Fast Format"
is the same as Apple's SuperDrive format, so the 3.5" drive will read both
MS-DOS formats - 720K and 1.44meg - as well as the high density Mac disks).

Jan Harrington
Scholastech Telecommunications
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