Mac floppy drive?

[OldAtarian]

Just wondered if anyone has ever tried using the floppy drives from the Mac that auto eject in an ST. If it's not possible, then what prevents it from working?

[lp060]

Just wondered if anyone has ever tried using the floppy drives from the Mac that auto eject in an ST. If it's not possible, then what prevents it from working?

 

Won't work, the OS wasn't designed to do that, as in support that feature. I assume its a feature of the drive mechanism.

[Rybags]

Not to mention the interface to the drive itself likely being very different. And in the pre 1.44 meg days their disk format was also different... might be wrong here but I'm fairly sure their early drives used different speeds depending on what track was being accessed.

 

Mac drives originated in the days where every man and his dog created their own "standards".

 

Sure, it would be theoretically possible to interface a Mac drive to the ST but would likely cost a fair bundle, and you'd be in a situation where your disks would be good to you only.

 

Just better off getting a HDD or one of the SD-card based floppy replacements.