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[Agafaster]

I recently got a 'SuperDrive' Mac II internal floppy drive.
anyone got one of these connected to either an A1 or a classic ? and how ?
I do have the pinout for the motherboard 20 pin header.
I also have the SCSI drive out of the Mac II - will this be readable from AmigaOS if I get a SCSI PCI card ? or is there a SCSI to IDE ot USB interface ?
sadly, the Mac II itself had to go - it was either that or the missus. it wasnt an easy decision, but I cant breastfeed so the wife got to stay ;-)

[irishmike]

Greetings:

I am not sure you can hook the superdrive to the Miggie. It was neat because of course the apple drives are motorized and eject the disk from software :-)

IIRC, the apple drive was also 880K in Mac format, but that had to do with the software, not the physical drive... it may have been 720K/1.44 MB just like the PC counterpart. What made it "super" was the high density.

I would love to find that you can use those drives with Miggies because I know where there are a bunch of them!

[Lemmink]

You can use it with the A-Max Hardware:

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=340

[Agafaster]

further investigation reveals that the drive is basically an
ESDI device.

It was neat because of course the apple drives are motorized and eject the disk from software

yeah I always thought that was pretty groovy!

IIRC, the apple drive was also 880K in Mac format, but that had to do with the software, not the physical drive... it may have been 720K/1.44 MB just like the PC counterpart. What made it "super" was the high density.

no, the DD version was 800K - it did this by varying the motor speed to achieve varying data density - hencenot being able to read
Mac DD disks in a PC or, indeed, an Amiga.
the SuperDrive bit was a brand name, IIRC as they were Sony drives, and yes, cos of the High density ability.
note: the HD is only 1.44MB and will work in any HD floppy drive - so long as you have the ability
to read Mac Filesystems ! ;-)

apparently someone has done some hacking and built an interface
(thanks for the AMAX info lemmink) on aminet, I'll have to dig em out.
-edit-
'ere we bin:
look on aminet under hard/hack:
macdrive.lha
MacFloppyPCB.lha
MacFloppyV1.01.lha
MacInterface.lha

apologies about the links being not exactly linky, but I'm using AWeb at the mo!