Note though: take a refund over an exchange if you can. The damn thing only reads PC floppies under osx!!!
-Leigh
On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 08:56 America/Montreal, Ed Nicol wrote:
Eric:
i suspect it is the drive. I have a MacAlly USB floppy drive on my iMac using 10.2.6 that works just fine.
Ed On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 08:38 US/Eastern, Eric D. wrote:
Hi, I just got a Storlogic USB floppy drive ("Candy Technology USB floppy
drive", model # USB-F3501) and it's giving me headaches. The drive is billed
as being compatible with 8.6 or higher.
OS X doesn't want to do anything with it (though it sees it in the ASP) and
OS 9 & 8.6 (with USB support installed) can't successfully read floppies
with it. A disk insertion will be recognised but the Finder will then want
to format it. I I let it format, it goes through the process and then says
disk is bad when it's verifying. If I let it do a DOS format it'll spend
aeons "Updating" the disk.
Is this an OS 9/X thing (I haven't used floppy disks since I had OS 8.1 on
my Quadra... all computers since have (mercifully) been floppy free)? Or is
this the floppy drive?
Eric.
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