Add support for floppy disk drives
Apr 14, '02 12:36:17AM
Contributed by: robg
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:
- 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.
The above information was taken from the SWIM3 Floppy Driver page, which is where you should go if you wish to download and install the driver yourself. I have not tested this, as I no longer have access to a machine with a floppy. If someone has installed it, please comment on your results.
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