>Would the above said also apply to such a device as the Imation (sony?)
>drive that can read/write 1,4MB floppies (and faster than Apple=B4s drive)
>as well as its own 120 MB media? To be able to connect my PB 2300 to this
>drive (via micro dock, scsi or floppy) or to mount it to a DuoDock would
>be just great - two storage devices in one... Can this be done?
Do you mean you'd like to be able to use a USB 120MB Superdrive with the
2300? Unless someone comes up with a SCSI-USB convertor (a device that
would attach to the SCSI bus and provide a USB port, probably possible but
not simple) or a NuBus USB card (possible, but even less marketable), you
can't.
However, Imation (ne� 3M) and other licensee companies made 120MB and
smaller floptical drives (for this is what it is) long before the
Superdrive; they just didn't market them very well (lack of blue plastic
perhaps ;). It is still possible to find SCSI 120MB floptical drives,
though they were never common. In fact I used to use a similar 20MB
floptical as the 1.44MB floppy drive for a Duo, before I had a desktop
Dock. It wasn't a perfect solution because some software installers
(especially those that look for copy-protected original disks) wouldn't see
the drive as a Sony floppy mechanism (which it wasn't), but it did the job
otherwise. There's software now to make the Imation USB drive mimic a real
Mac floppy, but it probably wouldn't recognise the older SCSI models.
--
Marc Sira | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you can't play with words, what good are they?"
----------
Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net!
A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables.
FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml>
Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400>
X-Router | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers!
Dr. Bott | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH120.html>
Midwest Mac Parts <http://www.midwestmac.com> | After-market parts
for Macs. Fix your ticking dock for $59 w/ trade-in of PS. 888-356-1104
PowerBook Guy is | Click here!
Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com
