Mac scsi floppy drive usefull on Amigas?

[Gulliver]

I found a 2 US$ Mac G3 floppy drive, with a proper adapter, Can I use it on my BlizzardPPC scsi and make something, somehow usefull of it on an Amiga? Could someone please elaborate.


Thanks in advance.

[AltRN8]

I didn't think the floppies were SCSI in any of the G3 models. Which model G3 did you yank it from?

[Gulliver]

I found it on a local online auction site. The seller says he retrieved it from a G3.

Here is a picture of it.

[J-Golden]

Can you post a pic. from behind so we can see the pinout?

[Gulliver]

I am sorry, but that is the only picture posted.

Anyway, assuming the drive is scsi, as the sellers says, can it be used under AmigaOS somehow?

I have also seen SUN and SGI scsi floppy drives, so I was wondering if I could make some use of them.

[Jiffy]

I am sorry, but that is the only picture posted.

That flatcable does not look like a 50 pin SCSI-cable, so I assume the drive is not SCSI either. And as a beige G3 only has 50 pins SCSI on board, to which the internal floppy drive is nót connected, chances are about zero that this drive will be SCSI.

Anyway, assuming the drive is scsi, as the sellers says, can it be used under AmigaOS somehow?

If it is indeed SCSI (which I seriously doubt), it will most likely function on your Amiga.

I have connected all kinds of removable drives to my A1200, ranging from 44 MB to several GB. Zip, Jazz, Syquests, MO-drives. They all work without any problems.

[Chrome]

I found it on a local online auction site. The seller says he retrieved it from a G3.

Here is a picture of it.

That is a normal Mac-floppy connected to mac-floppy connector, not SCSI.  Beige-G3`s had scsi onboard, later turquise-G3`s (The Mickey Mouse-model) didn`t had any internal floppydrivers.

[Gulliver]

Thanks for the advice, I know squat about Macs. So I will stay away from that floppy, as it is seems it is not scsi.

[Jope]

Just about the only places where you'll find SCSI floppies are in Unix workstations from the 90s. And even then most of those used a shugart bus.. You'd probably have the best luck with old HP/Apollo workstations.

You can read 720 and 1440kB disks with those drives. Perhaps useful if you transfer little files from a PC and have no null modem cable or network connection between the two. :-)

[hardlink]

Just about the only places where you'll find SCSI floppies are in Unix workstations from the 90s. And even then most of those used a shugart bus..

I agree with the first sentence, as I have one! It goes to an SGI Indy pizza-box workstation, and it is actually a floptical. It can use either floppies or small optical disks. I have not tried it on an Amiga yet, but with the right Mountlist, I think it would work.