On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:26:33AM -0500, jeremy blanton wrote: > On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Larry Blodgett wrote: > >>I just discovered tonight that my floppy drive doesn't work in > >>10.2.8, but still works normally in 9.2.x - this is on a beige G3/266 > >>MT. Does anyone know why this could be happening? > > Support for internal floppy drives was discontinued with the release of > X. You could add a USB zip floppy drive relatively inexpensively. > Pretty much most of the ones I've seen are cross platform.
One problem (could be a showstopper for some) is that USB floppy drives don't read or write 800K floppies. If you're swapping data with an Apple II (without a SuperDrive controller, BlueDisk, or other high-density floppy controller) or a really old Mac, a USB floppy drive will do bugger-all for you. There is a driver for the SWIM3 floppy controller available (have a look at http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8210 for more info), but I've not had much luck getting it working on my beige G3. (FWIW, I have my IIGS connected to the network through a GatorBox CS. With that, it'll talk to either netatalk on my Linux server or the built-in AppleTalk support on my G3 or my Quadra 610. For that matter, since the floppy drive in the Quadra works just fine with disks in all formats, not having the drive in the G3 working is even less critical. Still, it'd be nice to have it working, even if only to say that the damn thing works. :-) ) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
