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Posted by: EvieSigma on 2016-12-13 06:37:53
I'm planning on upgrading my SE to twin SuperDrives. However, I'm not exactly sure what drive specifically was used in the SE (and presumably SE/30) and eBay has loads of SuperDrives with no explanation of what model they came from.
Are the Sony ones the correct model? I'm fairly sure the Mitsubishi ones are not.
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Posted by: bibilit on 2016-12-13 07:22:21
Super drives are Sony MP F75W.
http://siber-sonic.com/mac/superfloppy.html
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Posted by: EvieSigma on 2016-12-13 07:31:16
Thanks, this should make things a lot easier.
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Posted by: EvieSigma on 2016-12-14 12:54:06
I somehow forgot to ask this...do the 800k and 1.44MB drives use the same floppy cables?
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Posted by: bibilit on 2016-12-14 23:25:07
No, IIRC there are different.
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Posted by: EvieSigma on 2016-12-15 06:39:56
I know there's a yellow stripe cable and a red stripe cable, but my SE has red stripe cables...
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Posted by: bunnspecial on 2016-12-15 08:34:44
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that the SE required ROM upgrade to make use of FDHD drives. I seem to recall that if you put in a Superdrive, it will only work as an 800K drive.
I'll try to test it this evening, as I have one of each(regular and FDHD) as well as an external Superdrive.
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Posted by: Gorgonops on 2016-12-15 09:41:30
From what I can find the yellow stripe cable is for 400k drives.
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Posted by: Compgeke on 2016-12-15 11:30:25
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that the SE required ROM upgrade to make use of FDHD drives. I seem to recall that if you put in a Superdrive, it will only work as an 800K drive.
I'll try to test it this evening, as I have one of each(regular and FDHD) as well as an external Superdrive. You're right on this. You need to upgrade both the IWM to a SWIM and the ROMs to a set from a factory FDHD (or hack up an EPROM adapter and write a new set).
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Posted by: EvieSigma on 2016-12-15 11:47:17
Well I'm just going to get a whole FDHD board so all I'd need is drives and I guess cables.
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