On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > ISTR this came up a while back - did we establish there *was* a way to
> > take AppleDOS disk images and cut 5.25" diskettes on some flavor of
> > Mac, or is a IIGS required? (I forget if you could hang any external
> > 5.25" disks off the Mac (voltage issues) or even of you could, would
> > the IWM know what to do with it or not).
>
> I'll leave the more informed reply to the more informed but I am positive
> you can't hook an Apple ][ drive to a Mac. You can probably do it through
> an Apple ][ card (I have one for the LC but can't find it right now to
> check the connectors on the back).
I think that I have read some rather specific warnings against
connecting a 5,25 Apple drive to a Mac. Can wipe out the FDC such that
even the internal drive will not work.
- don
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