Okay, I get it. I'm wrong about the interface for floppy drives. It would have been nice if someone had told me what the interface was instead of just shouting "NOT SCSI."
Anyway, since everyone who has posted here knows a lot more than I do about the floppy drives: Were there any real changes in them throughout the years? I have two functioning floppies from a couple of old Performa 6200s that would be useful if they can be used to replace the gunky ones in the older Macs. I looked at the profiles on LEM, but didn't see anything that said much about the floppies. On Jul 23, 7:46 pm, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote: > At 16:11 -0700 7/23/10, Iamanamma wrote: > > >Thanks for the post, but I think you misunderstood me. The IIsi does > >have a floppy drive (albeit gunked up and non-functioning), and SCSI > >is the only interface in a IIsi. > > I have taken apart - for parts - several IIsi's and my stack of old floppy > drives does not contain a single SCSI drive. In fact I have never seen such a > thing. > > I think you said your IIsi would not boot from its floppy drive but in any > case you need to unplug the 50 pin SCSI connector that must be there so that > it's surely not showing up as a failing node on the SCSI bus you're trying to > boot from. The boot process with a zapped PRAM starts with 6 and works down. > The internal hard drive will probably be SCSI 0 which means the last thing to > try. > > If you find a 19 pin connector the drive is NOT SCSI. > > -- > --> If it's not on fire it's a software problem. <-- Okay, I get it. I'm wrong about the interface for floppy drives. It would have been nice if someone had told me what the interface is instead of just shouting "NOT SCSI." Anyway, since everyone who has posted here knows a lot more than I do about the floppy drives: Were there any real changes in them throughout the years? I have two functioning floppies from a couple of old Performa 6200s that would be useful if they can be used to replace the gunky ones in the older Macs. I looked at the profiles on LEM, but didn't see anything that said much about the floppies. I'm still working on the weird drive problem, but it's on the back burner right now. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
