Floppy driver? |
February, 08, 2003 9:23 AM |
laudou462 |
Hi Has the floppy driver for OS X upgraded old Macs (7300-9600) been tested? Is it reliable? Laurier |
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RE: Floppy driver? |
February, 11, 2003 10:56 PM |
wjdwyer |
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You can use LS 120 drives on the native 33 (16) MHz IDE bus of the Beige G3's. They seem to work better as the Master drive. An alternative is use mount an external USB floppy internally—which necessitates using a Dremel tool (or its equivalent) to create an opening for the eject button, as well as having a PCI card with in internal USB port. |
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RE: Floppy driver? |
February, 11, 2003 8:16 PM |
earlyd416 |
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Dell announced earlier this week (or was it late last week) that it would not be shipping PeeCees with floppy drives any more. Writing is on the wall..., err, the CD, I mean. 8-) --Dwight |
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RE: Floppy driver? |
February, 09, 2003 4:23 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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It worked under 10.15 for me, although it took a LONG time to mount the disk. I didn't ever get it to work under 10.2.... The usb floppy drives are plug and play. kind if annoying the built in doesn't work, but oh well.... I added a 100M Zip to my OSX powertowerpro and that works very well... Marty |
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RE: Floppy driver? |
February, 09, 2003 1:37 PM |
mitch707 |
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Floppy is pretty much passe for any modern machine/op sys. USB is becoming ubiquitous and these little flash drives can carry a-loto-stuff. I use a Lexar 'JumpDrive', 128mb and it is really neat/convienent. Try one, you'll like it.-Mitch |
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RE: Floppy driver? |
February, 09, 2003 9:26 AM |
drc |
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An external USB floppy does the trick for me. (Have to boot into OS 9 to format for PCs though.) |
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RE: Floppy driver? |
February, 08, 2003 10:00 PM |
earlyd416 |
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I never got it to work. Forget it. I use either a Zip cartridge or burn a CD. Mainly the latter, since CD-Rs are so cheap. |
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RE: Floppy driver? |
February, 08, 2003 3:58 PM |
carey.beall |
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I've used it twice. It worked once (5 minutes to mount the diskette) and locked up once, with the floppy drive seeking endlessly... |