Re: Serial printer in OS X

[John Wilson]

I think Dr. M.B. was talking about being able to use the built-in 
floppy via a Unix-based hack on older Mac's running OS X. Right, 
Doctor? Support for many USB drives is built in OS X, but not for 
internal older floppies, which of course are not USB. John

On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 05:15  PM, cbirds wrote:

On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 02:10  PM, Dr. M. Burek wrote:

Just a observation: the "Floppy driver" from the Darwin project kinda 
sucks. I tried it, and it takes 5 minutes just for the disk to mount. 
A lot, lot longer if you try to actually look through the files on 
the disk! I recommend if anyone needs to get files off of a floppy in 
OS X to boot OS 9 or your Classic partition and get them off that way 
instead. It's quicker!
I am surprised that you would need drivers for Os X.  I just plugged 
in my VST Floppy drive, no drivers, and it showed up fine. The icon is 
pretty ugly and PC-like, but I was able to transfer the files just 
fine, not slow at all.


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