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can't see floppy
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I'm running OS X on a beige g3 desktop machine. Anytime I stick a floppy into the internal drive, the drive doesn't seem to read it and it doesn't come up on the desktop. The previous owner said that he it was working fine before he sold it. Then I was thinking of just swapping it with an IBM internal floppy drive, but the drive looks to be a Panasonic/Matsushita floppy drive with a 20 pin cable (not IDE) with no power cable. There isn't a power outlet on the drive, so I don't know what the deal is with that. Can anyone tell me what kind of connection this is? if I can buy a replacement? Or if theres anything that I can do to fix the problem? Thanks for your help.
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Thanks Michel, but still no results. i changed my startup disk to OS 9.2, restarted with a disk in the drive, and still nothing came up on the desktop. I even checked the System Profiler and the floppy drive was recognized, but it said "no mountable media inserted" even when there was a disk inserted. Maybe it's the disk, maybe it's the drive, I'm not sure. If anyone has any other ideas, let me know. Thanks again.
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Originally posted by FalsEye05:
...If anyone has any other ideas, let me know. Thanks again.
Ask and ye shall receive...
This driver is quite possibly the slowest thing under the sun. Really. It usually takes a minute or two to mount a floppy, and a long-ish time to actually copy anything. But if you have floppies you need to read, and only have the internal drive, this is what you're stuck with.
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Originally posted by FalsEye05:
can't see floppy
Lose some weight?
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charles, thanks for the help, i might try that out. but if that doesn't work, i can do without a floppy drive, but thats just a an empty bay and slot in the front of my machine. i'm also thinking about modding the bezel to accept a zip disk, and sticking a zip drive in the floppy bay instead. just a thought...
that reminds me... anyone know of any retail computer stores that sell mac drive sleds or zip drive bezels for beige g3 desktops?
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