Charlieman
Well-known member
I have just acquired one of these drives. It's a small SCSI box wrapped around an auto eject 2.8MB floppy drive that was sold early/mid 1990s for Macs and NeXT boxes. I have not found any info on how much the two versions differed -- I suspect it was down to the software bundle.
I've tried it with a PCI PowerMac running System 7.5.5 and Mac OS 8.1, plus a whole bunch of SCSI formatters. Alas, I don't have a real 2.8MB floppy so I'm trying it out with 1.4MB floppies (Mac formatted, known working). Basically I am not getting anywhere with generic formatters, so I'd appreciate any help locating the original software. SilverLining has a go at formatting a floppy disk (at 1.2MB) but nothing else even tries.
Any pointers or should I reserve it for the next time I wrestle with my NeXT?
I've tried it with a PCI PowerMac running System 7.5.5 and Mac OS 8.1, plus a whole bunch of SCSI formatters. Alas, I don't have a real 2.8MB floppy so I'm trying it out with 1.4MB floppies (Mac formatted, known working). Basically I am not getting anywhere with generic formatters, so I'd appreciate any help locating the original software. SilverLining has a go at formatting a floppy disk (at 1.2MB) but nothing else even tries.
Any pointers or should I reserve it for the next time I wrestle with my NeXT?