[SATLUG] OT: Help needed to identify an old part

[Brad Knowles]

Alan Lesmerises wrote:

> I've since found a few references to this device, and yes, it can have 2 
> drives in it (see the picture about half-way down at 
> http://users.eastlink.ca/~pspencer/mac/dayna/dayna.html).

Interesting.  Makes me wonder what the heck is going on inside of that 
case which can map a single SCSI address into two separate physical 
floppy drives.

>                                                            The problem 
> I'm going to have is that it was originally for a Mac, and it's doubtful 
> there are any drivers to allow it to work with Linux or even Windows.  
> I'm sure the trickery of getting to work with 2 drives is in the driver ...

There must be some deep magic in the logic boards within the case as 
well.  Either way, I think you're definitely going to have problems 
talking to this device unless you're running a really old version of 
MacOS and you can dig up the appropriate fifteen year-old drivers.

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