external superdrive idea

#1 Wed, 1 May 2013 - 22:24

The SE's superdrive. If I swap it into an external 800k floppy enclosure, does that work as an external 1.44mb for the SE?

#2 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 00:12

Yes, it is a direct swap, but this assumes the SE's ROMs have been updated or it is a FDHD model. It will detect as 800K in a standard SE.

#3 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 01:07

yes it works, and its automatically backward compatible.

i have an Apple 3.5" here 800 ---> 2mb

aftermac was the one that motivated the project.

I guess FDHD externals are slightly rare?

http://aftermac.blogspot.com/

i know he did a post on the whole process somewhere, not sure if its on retromaccast.

http://retromaccast.ning.com/profile/JasonMcCormack

ah here it is

http://retromaccast.ning.com/profiles/status/show?id=1672786%3AStatus%3A98720#comments

Haha a guy like this, all Sportin his Mac Daddy shirt, doesn't play around! ahahah

#4 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 01:19

Amazing. Yes it is the FDHD model.

I have a plan now. }

#5 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 02:34

Does it really require plans? Just take it apart, replace the 800 with a 1.4 and put everything back.

It's really that simple.

#6 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 05:00

LOL! well no, that part of it is just the first step in a plan.

I think I am going to take the 1.44 out of the SE, put it in the external.

Then I think in the future I want to buy one of Uniserver's SCA drive+adapters.

I'm not real sure on how I want to go about it or actually do it though.

#7 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 05:44

buy one of Uniserver's SCA drive+adapters.

sounds good to me

let me know when you want to move on that, i can get it in the mail to you the next day.

#8 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 06:40

I will send a pm on friday Uniserver.

ALSO: I didn't see your updated reply. Thanks for those links!

#9 Thu, 2 May 2013 - 06:49

Ok very good.

Charles

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