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| Can SE/30 use floppy drive from 6100? |
Posted by: glay78 on 2022-03-15 09:30:13
Hi, as the title says, my SE/30 does not come with a floppy drive, I have a spare drive from 6100 and can I use it? |
Posted by: George on 2022-03-15 16:14:41
Hi , SE/30’s floppy drive is MP-F75W-xxG.
It is auto-inject drive. But 6100’s floppy drive is MPF xxA or MF355F-xxMA. It is manual-inject drive. They are not same, so you can’t use.
I will paste the link of the detailed page.
Discussion of Apple Macintosh SuperDrive floppy compatibility and interchangeability.
siber-sonic.com
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Posted by: glay78 on 2022-03-15 16:20:48
Hi , SE/30’s floppy drive is MP-F75W-xxG.
It is auto-inject drive. But 6100’s floppy drive is MPF xxA or MF355F-xxMA. It is manual-inject drive. They are not same, so you can’t use.
I will paste the link of the detailed page.
Discussion of Apple Macintosh SuperDrive floppy compatibility and interchangeability.
siber-sonic.com
Oh nice to know and thank you so much. |
Posted by: glay78 on 2022-03-15 16:48:36
Hi , SE/30’s floppy drive is MP-F75W-xxG.
It is auto-inject drive. But 6100’s floppy drive is MPF xxA or MF355F-xxMA. It is manual-inject drive. They are not same, so you can’t use.
I will paste the link of the detailed page.
Discussion of Apple Macintosh SuperDrive floppy compatibility and interchangeability.
siber-sonic.com
But reading it again it seems able to work, since a manual inject works on Mac IIsi. |
Posted by: George on 2022-03-15 18:05:44
But reading it again it seems able to work, since a manual inject works on Mac IIsi. If you can cut SE/30’s Shell, you can use it.
When you want to inject floppy into Manual-inject drive, you need to push by your finger. But normal SE/30's shell can’t reach to inject. You need to cut the SE/30’s shell.
And if you want to use mechanical emergency eject button, you need to make new hole on the Se/30’s shell. |
Posted by: glay78 on 2022-03-15 18:16:53
If you can cut SE/30’s Shell, you can use it.
When you want to inject floppy into Manual-inject drive, you need to push by your finger. But normal SE/30's shell can’t reach to inject. You need to cut the SE/30’s shell.
And if you want to use mechanical emergency eject button, you need to make new hole on the Se/30’s shell. But functionality wise it should read and write right? |
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2022-03-15 20:04:59
It'll read and write no problem. The issue is getting the disk to go in. What I did when my Centris 650 had a Quadra 650 floppy drive in it (same drive as the one from a 6100), was to take a second floppy and insert it backward, using it to push the disk all the way into the drive so it'd drop down onto the spindle. I have since replaced the MF355F mechanism with the correct Sony mechanism. |
Posted by: glay78 on 2022-03-15 20:09:07
It'll read and write no problem. The issue is getting the disk to go in. What I did when my Centris 650 had a Quadra 650 floppy drive in it (same drive as the one from a 6100), was to take a second floppy and insert it backward, using it to push the disk all the way into the drive so it'd drop down onto the spindle. I have since replaced the MF355F mechanism with the correct Sony mechanism.
yup I thought of it too, use something to push it in, since I don’t have a drive for my SE/30 |
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