Re: No floppy in Jaguar?

[James Sanderson]

I had this on two of my upgraded machines.  Sometimes the floppy would 
mount; sometimes not.  When it did mount it usually took a few minutes 
for the floppy to be mounted.  Sometimes when the floppy would mount 
the machine could not read the floppy disk.  When it would, the files 
on the disk would often be corrupted.  When I saved to the floppy, the 
files were inevitably corrupted.  Mixed results indeed!

J Sanderson
On Friday, April 23, 2004, at 01:52  am, Paul Kurtz wrote:
I tried SWIM on my beige dt with 10.2.8, to no avail.  However, I've 
heard
mixed results.

Paul

On 4/23/04 2:47 AM, "Mark Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Apr 23, 2004, at 07:24 am, Paul Kurtz wrote:

This is a "feature?" of OS X.  It disables the built in floppy drives
on
those macs that have one.  You can still use a usb floppy though.
The floppy drive is not disabled, it's just not supported any longer.
All OS X supported machines have access to a bootable CD drive and 
thus
it was decided by the great and the good at Apple that, as all recent
Mac software is supplied on CD anyway, that the floppy drive (a medium
I personally think is redundant on a modern computer anyway, but some
places still use) was no longer required. This is also the reason that
all 'Aqua' machines and later have no floppy.

There is, out there somewhere, an open source driver for the Apple 
SWIM
chip that was originally written for OS X Server 10.1 but works, 
AFAIK,
on all Darwin based OSs, including 10.2 and 10.3.
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meet it
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