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Beige G3 works with some restrictions
Authored by: spaceMan on Apr 17, '02 09:26:10PM

Hi - not an extensive test but I have had some success with the floppy support on my Beige G3 MT
observations:
1 - takes just over a minute for floppy to appear on desktop after inserted
2 - icon for floppy is same as mac users for any other mounted disk image - ie, doesn't have a unique icon for floppy
3 - doesn't seem to mount PC formatted floppy - nothing appears on desktop
4 - the floppy isn't ejected at logout automatically - you need to do this with normal eject command
5 - having a floppy in the drive at startup seems to hang the boot process - not sure because I may have been too impatient - waited 2 minutes and it wasn't proceeding - used the paperclip eject and ctrl-power to reboot ok
6 - able to read/write to floppy from Finder, and from textedit - presumably other apps have no trouble either.

Overall I am quite happy with this support - although a little 'rough' it is way better than having to reboot into OS 9 just to get stuff off a floppy.
I will be submitting these comments as feedback to the floppy driver site.

- spaceMan -



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