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Floppy Drive super slow in OS X
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I am using a SmartDisk Floppy Drive with OS 10.2.6. It does read the disk but it is so slow. I am talking 10 -15 minutes for 7 or 8 pictures. What is the deal? Is there a fix for this? I know others with different name brand disk drives that have the same problem in 10.
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Originally posted by jlemons:
Is there a fix for this?
Don't use floppies.
No, seriously, that is the solution. Try CD-R or RW. Much better.
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Be sure that the floppy is formatted in HFS and not DOS.
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I can't believe you're using floppies.
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My casette tape drive also not giving optimal performance. Nowhere near as smooth as Apple IIe!
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I had to get a USB floppy for a class at school and yes it is slow as hell mainly because the driver in X.2 is only an alpha. BUT I just tried it in 10.3 and its MUCH MUCH faster.
took 5 seconds to mount a floppy
15 seconds to copy a 400k file to a floppy (3 page PDF)
10 seconds to open that PDF up in preview from the floppy.
so maybe u have a reason to upgrade to 10.3 this month 
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"If Bush says we hate freedom, let him tell us why we didn't attack Sweden, for example. OBL 29th oct
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I know, I know, I should throw the floppys away. My school only has two digital cameras and they are Sony Mavicas with the floppy drive.
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You might improve performance by switching to a floppy RAID
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Gosh, I remember using one of those five years ago.
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[vash:~] banana% killall killall
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If it's any consolation, I noticed that it takes several minutes to write 1MB of data onto a floppy disk - using a rather snappy peecee.
Perhaps the sluggishness issue is related to the hardware moreso than the software.
*glances at his Sony digital camera with built-in high-speed 4X floppy disk drive and ponders the possibility of new life for old data storage tehnology.*
"yeah, so? MY peecee has a 4X floppy drive. It ownz."
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I can confirm the painfully slow SmartDisk USB floppy drive. I have one connected to a G4 with Jaguar and it's slow as molasses in January. Funny thing is, I bought it from the Apple Store Online with my G4. I wish Apple would have better solutions instead of this - but how was I to know until I used it myself?
For everyone else who offered their opinion about floppies, which wasn't what he asked for, let me explain that the SmartDisk USB is actually about 20x slower than a typical floppy drive, and that shouldn't be the situation. It may be OS X's built-in drivers. It may be Smart Disk's fault. For the time being, we have to suffer.
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Use a USB drive instead. Even a USB 1.1 drive is faster than a floppy!
Mike
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You might improve performance by switching to a floppy RAID
BEST. IDEA. EVER.
It's people like this who have spare time and lots of random hardware around that make my life better.
I read awhile back in wired that a few guys managed to get a LP storage device working. (Yes, Data on a analog record)
I thankfully for once am old enough to remember putting the phone reciever ON the modem. Also floppy disks that were actually floppy. and the larger floppies that came before 5 1/4's.
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hudson1 Is right, somehow.
It is not the floppy drive, try to use a DOS formatted zip disc/drive f.e., it crawls under OS X. Plain OS 9 is much faster in this respect, you might try that. But using that Mavica floppy cam, there is no alternative other than DOS-formatted floppies.
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I'm-a trying to wonder, wonder, wonder why you, wonder, wonder why you act so.
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Yeah, I returned my floppy after buying it from the apple store, it was slow as hell.
I thought it was emulating or something?
Once I reformatted in HSF it was much faster, what it should of been.
USB-Smart disk in DOS is slow as hell.
DOS external hard disk is slow as hell.
Its like Apple purposely made them slow to piss us off!
I can't use HSF, because of compatibility problems with windows.
WHY WOULD YOU USE A FLOPPY?
Where I study, we no longer support CD-WR, because of vandalism; instead everyone is given an USB-Smart disk each.
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