[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Mac SE drives?

cjg@sps.com (Christopher Graham) (04/10/91)

Can anyone tell me how (if at all) one can use a 3.5 high density internal
disk drive, in a SE that has a double density drive at the current time.
Can you just swap a drive (like a CX drive) in and go about my work?


Thanks, Christopher J. Graham

E-MAIL : cjg@sps.com
      or rcs47793@zach.fit.edu

valsta@cc.helsinki.fi (04/11/91)

In article <294@sps.com>, cjg@sps.com (Christopher Graham) writes:
> Can anyone tell me how (if at all) one can use a 3.5 high density internal
> disk drive, in a SE that has a double density drive at the current time.
> Can you just swap a drive (like a CX drive) in and go about my work?
> 
> 
> Thanks, Christopher J. Graham
> 
> E-MAIL : cjg@sps.com
>       or rcs47793@zach.fit.edu
I have understood that SE's ROMs don't support HD drives. So you can't do it
just like that. I believe Rapport, e.g., has software to work that around.

Lauri Valsta
valsta@cc.helsinki.fi

kenney@hsi86.hsi.com (Brian Kenney) (04/11/91)

In article <1991Apr10.185945.5931@cc.helsinki.fi> valsta@cc.helsinki.fi writes:

>I have understood that SE's ROMs don't support HD drives. So you can't do it
>just like that. I believe Rapport, e.g., has software to work that around.

This is true for the older SE's.  However, all the newer SE's have the 
proper ROMS to use the FDHD.  Of course, for the original question,
you can't just swap the older drive with the newer one without
getting the Apple upgrade.

-Bri

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Brian Kenney                                       kenney@hsi.com 
3M Health Information Systems                      Wallingford, CT
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