27 Nov
2001
27 Nov
'01
11:08 p.m.
I took my Profile apart the other night and any hopes
of
swapping another drive in there were dashed since the ST506 has an
Apple-specific board on it.
isn't the apple-specific board piggy-backed onto the
board that's there in a non-apple version of the drive?
-dq
27 Nov
27 Nov
10:49 p.m.
I took my
Profile apart the other night and any hopes of
swapping another drive in there were dashed since the ST506 has an
Apple-specific board on it.
isn't the apple-specific board piggy-backed onto the
board that's there in a non-apple version of the drive? 
28 Nov
28 Nov
6:28 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Just from looking at the one in the Profile, and not
having
another 506 to directly compare it to, it looks like the Apple board
is being used in place of whatever circuit card it would normally
have. In fact, the interface to the drive is a single ribbon cable
coming in from the side vice the dual data/control cables normally
associated with the 506-type drives.
Jeff, you are correct. For whatever reason that Apple had a habit of, the
normal board was replaced by a custom Apple board. I doubt you could drop
in a non-Apple replacement drive and have it work.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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