At 10:50 AM -0500 3/8/2003, Bill Brown wrote: >Yo compacters everywhere, > >I dragged out the auld 128k again to trial a few thing with it. Like many, >I don't fire up this pretty puppy very often. When I do, I must relearn a >few things. Good fun. > >I have three perfectly good (clean, reasonably quiet, no stiction) Apple >HD-20 external 20 MB hard drives. On a Mac Plus, each HD-20 drive works >well. When connected to the 128k, they spin up but do not even mount. My >question here is: Does a 128k even have the ability to mount an HD-20 >drive? Is their some little item to add to make it work here? Or is that >external floppy drive port on the 128k forever limited to only external >floppy drives?
IIRC the 128K couldn't work with the HD-20 due to memory limitations. The 512K could but it needed the "HD-20" file installed with the System in order to see it. Meaning that you have to boot off of a floppy to use it. The 512Ke, Plus and later models had the necessary boot code in ROM. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
