Hallo,
I have read that it is possible to upgrade an Apple 3.5 Disk Drive to a Apple SuperDrive if you put the mechanic of a old Mac Drive inside ...
So it can read 720k 1.4MB and 800k disks ...
Does anyone know more details about that ?
Thanks a lot !
. . . as the first 3.5" drives operated at 400k. The standard external drive that they made many of, and are still somewhat available were in 800k (used with mac and ]['s), and Apple did (briefly) produce a "SuperDrive" that can handle 800k format and 1.4MB format.
The SuperDrive requires a special interface card for Apple ]['s. Once in awhile these show up on Ebay, where the drives cost about $75 and the interface cards cost about $150. One interface card can handle two daisy chained drives, either Super or 800k.
Mutant_Pie
http://www.a2central.com/features/2000-11/24-controllers/index.html
"It is possible to take a standard Apple 3.5 Drive and upgrade it to an
External SuperDrive by swapping the internal disk mechanism from an older
FDHD enhanced Macintosh. Apparently this is an easy upgrade."
...
Thanks
P.S.:
I do have this special card !
But to read the HD floppys you need a superdrive card.