SE/30 two floppy cable mod

[daveosx]

Thanks

bigmessofwires you are the man

Yes I think that I will probably just solder some wires to the bottom of the external connector through hole nibs and route up to the second drive.

I still can not find the bottom of my external floppy case.

It is lost in the years of no eject gears.

I have one of your floppy emulators and enjoy it.

I have an idea for a board redesign on it though, I was thinking that the buttons and the card slot could be put in line along the width of a standard floppy slot that way it could be installed internally with a cable extension for the display to be mounted on an L bracket under the front of the compact mac centered on the drive slot above. I will get around to doing a sketch of the idea and post the images here.

 

[Bunsen]

You could find a SCSI LS-120 "superfloppy" drive and mount that internally - if there are drivers available which will work on an SE/30.  As a bonus you then have 120MB of molasses-slow removable storage as well as plain floppies.

 

[olePigeon]

As a 1.4MB floppy drive, it's really fast.  It's great for backing up high density floppies.  I also use it to recover data off seemingly damaged 1.4MB floppy disks.  I forgot how it was explained to me, but something like the LS-120 can read the floppy in smaller chunks at a time unlike a regular Mac floppy, which reads them in larger chunks (and data doesn't always take up a whole chunk.)  So if you have a 1.4MB floppy disk that can't be read on a normal floppy drive, the LS-120 might be able to still get the data off it if the data isn't on the part of the chunk that's damaged.

Or something like that.  All I know is that it can read floppies when no other floppy drive can.

 

[daveosx]

Yep the 120s are pretty cool I have one but ide and only have one of the disks.

I do have a decent CNC mill so as of last night I decided to make a nylon carrier for the SCSI2SD card and move it all the way forward in teh bay and line it up so that I can use teh USB and change sd cards through teh slot.

I will post some picture when I am done.