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to: David Drummond
from: Tom Walker
date: 2003-12-14 08:13:16
subject: Re: Knoppix

->  ->> I wonder If there's a way to interface a macintosh floppy
drive (they 
->  ->> have a motorised eject meechnism)  Hmmm, I could stick a mac floppy 
->  ->> controller (if they are available separate) on an ISA card
and compile 
->  ->> in the apropriate hardware drivers but if I could use a
funky cable to 
->  ->> hook it to a regular floppy controller it'd be better.

->  TW>  IBM used to have motorized Eject Floppy drive on the origional PS2
->  TW> computers.

-> How did one eject the diskette?

As I recall it could be done remotely like the MAC, with proper software
of course, but it also had a Eject button on the Drive like the ZIP
drives have.
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