Author Topic: Floppy drive ? (Read 2915 times)

george · « **on:** August 06, 2003, 10:30:03 AM »

I have installed Os 10.2.6 on my other m/c a beige g3 and it does not see the floppy drive (it did with os 9.2.2) should it?
George.

Paddy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 06, 2003, 10:57:12 AM »

OS X doesn't see floppy drives. However there are hacks/drivers available.

See:

http://www.darwin-development.org/floppy/

A bit more info:

http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/03...321123331.shtml

george · « **Reply #2 on:** August 06, 2003, 11:37:13 AM »

Paddy, thanks for the links................will investigate.
George

nrowe · « **Reply #3 on:** August 06, 2003, 11:40:28 AM »

OK so I clicked on both links but did not find the floppu driver for OS X Jaguar. Where is it?

kelly · « **Reply #4 on:** August 06, 2003, 12:27:59 PM »

I've heard bad things about trying those hacks.

Me. I'd boot into OS 9.x and transfer the Files.

gmann · « **Reply #5 on:** August 06, 2003, 12:47:36 PM »

That is strange. My Imation super drive is plug and play in X. I did not have to load drivers or do any tweaks. It uses 1.44 and 120 Meg floppies.

Paddy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 06, 2003, 05:55:10 PM »

The external floppies are a different species and don't have this problem in OS X.

Given the somewhat ominous warnings about the hacks, I'm somewhat inclined to agree with Kelly. After all, how often do you really need a floppy these days? In my house, I simply either send them via file-sharing on the network/ftp or if they're for someone else - email works nicely for small files. I haven't used one on my Macs for over two years now. PeeCees are a different story...all those darned drivers...

ljocampo · « **Reply #7 on:** August 06, 2003, 06:07:53 PM »

There is a universal drive out there and it isn't a hack. I can't seem to remember the name though, but I've seen it mentioned on MacFixIt. Do a search for universal drivers.

krissel · « **Reply #8 on:** August 06, 2003, 11:52:15 PM »

From what I've read about these, they can work but are almost always intolerably slow. Many users say it is faster to boot back to 9 , do what you have to and return to X.

george · « **Reply #9 on:** August 07, 2003, 08:44:48 AM »

Hi Nrowe, like you, darned if I could find floppy drivers.
methinks I'll follow the ' Guru of all Gurus' (Kelly) advice and boot into OS 9
Thanks to you all for the advice given.
George.

kelly · « **Reply #10 on:** August 07, 2003, 09:47:13 AM »

Not so.

I think that title would have to be applied to tacit.

krissel agreed also.

george · « **Reply #11 on:** August 07, 2003, 12:49:30 PM »

Kelly,
All for one and one for all.

again.
George

FLASH1296 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2003, 11:04:12 AM »

My EXTERNAL USB floppy drive works perfectly under O S 10.2.6

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