How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
September, 17, 2002 10:17 AM |
sneitzel |
I downloaded the drivers to allow OSX to use my floppy drive but maybe I'm missing something. I have a list of files but don't know where they go or how to get them to work. If anyone could tell me how to go about installing them I would appreciate it. Thanks. |
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RE: How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
October, 07, 2002 8:10 AM |
airdrummer |
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swim0.96 doesn't work under jag...i'm going 2 try a recompile sometime soon... |
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RE: How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
September, 25, 2002 5:13 PM |
jonsaw |
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I've found the only reliable way to work with floppies on an older Mac running OS X is to install a USB card, and connect a USB floppy drive. |
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RE: How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
September, 24, 2002 7:39 PM |
john.england |
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Floppy disk support is really sketchy for OS X anyway so I would suggest other forms of transporting data to your Mac. My zip disks and CD's work way better for this platform anyway. That and networking is wonderful so I really don't need floppies any more. |
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RE: How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
September, 24, 2002 6:26 PM |
gx77 |
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RTFM |
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RE: How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
September, 17, 2002 10:48 PM |
sneitzel |
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Yes, I have already downloaded the SWIM Drivers. I'm asking how I make them work? |
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RE: How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
September, 17, 2002 7:17 PM |
paul_findley |
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See the other post on this subject from a couple weeks back to find out where to get the latest version (not version tracker) while the SWIM ftp site is down. Also, there have been some reports that it doesn't work under Jaguar, but I'm not sure if the reporter was using the latest SWIM driver (that's the name of the floppy software). |
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RE: How Do I Get Floppy Drive Working? |
September, 17, 2002 2:47 PM |
gx77 |
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there were some (very) beta floppy disk drivers that came out about a year ago, you can probably find them on versiontracker by doing a search for "floppy" under OSX software. a word of caution though- they're EXTREMELY slow, and very unstable. they crashed my machine, and i had to delete them using the terminal for it to work correctly again. I didn't find them to be worth the trouble. with the limited size of floppies, i haven't found that i am ever needing the floppy drive using X. |