Hello again,
Has anyone used an external floppy drive (USB) for any reason? Months
ago I bought a Sony 2x speed floppy disk drive and just tonight
finally got around to opening the box and trying to use it. I
obviously never expected any problems, or I would have tried it right
away...
My purpose is that I have a lot of "old" clip art (EPS files) that
many years ago, I paid a small fortune for, and wish to now put on a
Zip disk, or CDs, etc - and be able to use, if I want to. Since my
Power Mac G4 (Sawtooth) nor my iBook G4 have floppy drives, I ponied
up about $40 for this external thing and thought it would be a breeze
(maybe time consuming, but workable.)
The instructions indicate that you do not need any "driver" for Mac
OS 9.x nor for 10.1 (and up)... and in fact it appeared like only
Windoze stuff was on the CD anyway (I looked, when I got frustrated).
Supposedly you just plug the USB cable in and go...
Plugged the thing in to both my laptop and my desktop and with each
one, I can't get it to work. On the desktop (running OS 9.2) I put a
floppy in (factory-made clip art disk) and it tells me the disk is
not readable by this computer... do I want to initialize (which I DO
NOT!!!!) OR, the other result is when I put a floppy in (I have now
tried a handful of different ones)... it does nothing - seems to
power up (spin up?) the floppy, but it never does mount on the
desktop.
On the laptop, it does not mount. A little green light comes on the
drive like it is ready to - makes noise like it's spinning up, then
NOTHING. No error message, nada.
Do I have a bum drive, or am I missing something? Back in 1991 this
set of clip art was about $300 and even though it's "old"... now it
is a matter of principle... and I WANT IT!
Any help or thoughts would be welcome.
Thank you,
Michelle the Frustrated
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