I bought a LaCie USB Floppy along with my G4/450 DP, and of course the fact that OS X dosn't support it is rather frustrating. Even more so that LaCie offered no support on this drive whatsoever! The drive is not manufactured by LaCie at all, it's made by Y-E Data, a company in Japan; http://www.yedata.com.
They call it "USB Floppy Disk Drive FlashBuster-U" and "USB FDD SNAP-ON Color Cover Model". There are two other variants; one made for the early iMacs, and one for Windows. Just now, I received a mail from Y-E Data:
Apple will support USB FDD on Mac OS X with built-in driver. But current version of Apple's Mac OS X driver has problem with mount and un-mount operation. Please wait. Apple will fix this problem on future update.It's not a perfect solution, but it does help a bit. Thanx to Mr. Sasaya for his help! ;-)
If you want force to take USB Floppy on current version:But, you could not un-mount and change floppy disk.
- Do not install driver from driver CD-ROM. USB floppy drive work with Built-in Driver of Mac OS X.
- Insert Floppy Disk to USB Floppy before connecting USB Cable.
- Connect USB Cable to your Mac.
- Floppy will mount on your Mac.
Apple release Mac OS update 10.0.4, we already test it but, it has still problem. Please wait Apple's next update.
Regards,
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Yoshi Sasaya Y-E DATA INC.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20010628054550279