hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) (05/19/88)
Hi all... I just bought a 5.25" PC drive and controller for my Mac II. Yes, I know that $400 for a 360k drive is exhorbitant, but I needed the connectivity. My question is this: Why doesn't the MacOS know about the drive. I mean, why can't I use it as a Standard Mac drive. Is it only useable with 3rd party stuff like SoftPC?? Does any Apple stuff recognize it?? For $400 I would also have expected it to be at least a 720k drive like the $75 ones you find for the PC/XT world. Could I change the drive to a 720k one?? =========== Totally different vein......I removed my color startup screen and my system memory usage, which was at 313k used in a heap of 870k, went to 313k used in a heap of 313k, so the startup problem REALLY is a major memory hog bug!!! Phil Hunt
wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) (05/19/88)
In article <8805182013.AA24460@decwrl.dec.com> hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes: > I just bought a 5.25" PC drive and controller for my Mac II. Yes, I know >question is this: Why doesn't the MacOS know about the drive. I mean, why The program Apple File Exchange included with the last system release can talk to the drive. ---------------------------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu Race For Space Grand Prize Winner. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Useless Advice #986: Never sit on a Tack.
stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein) (05/20/88)
In article <8805182013.AA24460@decwrl.dec.com> hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes: > I just bought a 5.25" PC drive and controller for my Mac II. Yes, I know >that $400 for a 360k drive is exhorbitant, but I needed the connectivity. My >question is this: Why doesn't the MacOS know about the drive. I mean, why >can't I use it as a Standard Mac drive. Is it only useable with 3rd party stuff >like SoftPC?? Does any Apple stuff recognize it?? Yes, the Apple File Exchange program, which you will find on the 4-disk System Tools and Utilities distribution, is what you use to access that drive. Stew Rubenstein Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc. UUCPnet: seismo!harvard!rubenstein CompuServe: 76525,421 Internet: rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu MCIMail: CSC
benjamin_kuo@pedro.UUCP (Benjamin Kuo) (05/23/88)
The drives I've seen set-up work indepedently of any software except Apple's system. Do you have it connected to the right SCSI device?