stelriah Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 anyone know how to access the floppy drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2320-macos-and-the-floppy-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 anyone know how to access the floppy drive? Macs don't have floppy drives. You could try a USB one I guess, as those are supported. What do you need one for though? Just curious as I've not used one in like 5 years. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2320-macos-and-the-floppy-drive/#findComment-15127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatoncat Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Apple has intentionally removed native Floppy Drive access from Mac OS X, limiting it to external drives. This was done to prevent older Macs from being attractive because of their floppy drives. There are buggy third-party drives, but I just suggest avoiding the drive completely in X, if there is an eventual standalone release Apple will probably reconsider this in-OS limitation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2320-macos-and-the-floppy-drive/#findComment-15145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
setec Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 http://www.darwin-development.org/floppy/ This is really only for real MACs. However, I bought an old Macintosh Classic II, and I wanted a way to make boot floppies for it. Well, of course my Mac Mini didn't have a floppy, but my Mac-Intel does. However, when I booted my Gateway 450XL laptop with the floppy drive popped in, I get a dark gray screen showing that I must reboot. However, I installed the drivers above and I can boot normally. My floppy drive doesn't work in Mac OSX, but at least the system boots normally. As far as boot floppies for my old mac, I downloaded the files on my mac osx side, rebooted into Windows XP, use MACDRIVE to copy the files over to the floppy and then once they are copied on the old mac, I can make the boot disks. However, getting the floppy to work on x86 Mac OSX would be great. I think I am going to break down and just get an USB one though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2320-macos-and-the-floppy-drive/#findComment-15188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoebus Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 [url=http://www.darwin-development.org/floppy/]http://www.darwin- However, getting the floppy to work on x86 Mac OSX would be great. I think I am going to break down and just get an USB one though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've tried a no-name usb floppy (the ones usually used for floppy-less windows notebooks) on Tiger (on a real iMac) and it works flawlessly, floppies are recognized with their own icon, even FAT formatted of course. You'll have to eject them manually, though :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2320-macos-and-the-floppy-drive/#findComment-15679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
setec Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Yep, me too. I went to Walmart and bought the only USB floppy drive they had - SmartDisk, Model: FDUSB-TM2, www.smartdisk.com, $40 Works like a charm on both my Mac Mini and my Mac-Intel I can format them as Mac OS, MSDOS, Unix, etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2320-macos-and-the-floppy-drive/#findComment-16702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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