- Beige G3 Desktop
- Beige G3 Minitower
- G3 All-in-One
- PowerBook G3 Series (Wallstreet and Mainstreet)
- PowerMac 8500
- All other PCI PowerMacs with SWIM3 floppy hardware should work, but are untested.
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David Gatwood and Louis Gerbarg have created an open-source floppy disk driver for older machines running OS X. This driver should provide functionality for the floppy drive on a number of older machines:
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Risky?
Hi there,
Risky?
I downloaded and installed it. It works but it took seven minutes to copy a 1.3 MB file. In all fairness, the author states clearly this is not tested or optimzed. For those of us with older G3's with software or archives that are still on floppies, this is a nice little tool.
I can't speak for whether its risky, I just tried with one floppy and it worked. From the readme ANNOUCE file in the source folder: Subject: A Tale of Wizards and Song (alpha) Once upon a time, in a Multicolored Kingdom, there lived a great wizard. His name was the Woz. The Woz begat a machine -- the Integrated Woz Machine. Others saw what the Woz had done, and saw that it was good. And yea though the technology was old and crusty, it was fast and compact. And so it was that in the fifth year, from the Integrated Woz Machine was built the Super Woz Integrated Machine. And the engineers looked upon what they had done and saw that it was good. And at that time, in the Multicolored Kingdom, the inhabitants were writing a great work of music called Copland. A single verse of the Copland could be used to tame the Super Woz Integrated Machine. Time passed and Copland was forgotten, and the inhabitants of the Multicolored Kingdom began work on a new piece: a Rhapsody. But the designers of this Rhapsody did not tame the Super Woz Integrated Machine, but rather took the verse from the Copland, and in so doing, mastered it. Then something entirely unexpected happened. One of the original Copland composers looked to days of yore and lost the ancient melody. The verse of power fell into new hands. And so it was that the child of OSF gained the verse. But the verse had a mind of its own. It would not be content until it once again could be played in harmony with the works of the Multicolored Kingdom from whence it was forged. And thus, we present our gift to you.
Re: Risky?
For what it's worth - floppy access is slow on *any* OS X machine - including G4 hardware.
It works, slow but it works
I've installed it on a white G3 tower, and it worked. It takes a bit long to mount a floppy when you insert it, and copy the files.
It works, slow but it works
What happens/happened/will happen
It works, slow but it works
As the authors of this floppy-darwin-driver answered:
Beige G3 works with some restrictions
Hi - not an extensive test but I have had some success with the floppy support on my Beige G3 MT |
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