Re: Does it exist? Mac USB Floppy drive r/w 800k & ProDOS disks?

[Ernie Leimkuhler <ernie@stagesmith.com>]

In article <68a2ec1b.0201181347.37b4e985@posting.google.com>,
 me@lazilong.com (Lazarus I. Long) wrote:

> I've asked this before, but perhaps the landscape has changed since.
> 
> Does this puppy exist?  I need a Macintosh USB floppy drive that will
> read / write 800k disks and ProDOS disks.  Please cross post on reply,
> and cc me if you can.  thanks!
> 
> -laz

You are far better off just setting up an old Mac on an ethernet connection and 
using that to mount the floppies.

To access 400k disks you have to stick with a system older that 8.
At least I think that was he break point.
Somewhere in there they removed support for MFS 400k floppies.

800k floppies are still supported in Mac OS 9, if you have a floppies drive that 
can handle them.

So the perfect ethernet floppy machine might be a tiny LC 475 running System 
7.5.1, if you could find one with a PDS Ethernet card installed.

Most of the Quadras have Ethernet, but the smallest solution would be an older 
Powerbook.
Like a 520 or 540.

The only SCSI Floppy drive made was the 20 MB Floptical drive.
It could read and write 800k and 1.4 MB floppies as well as it's own 20 MB 
optical disks.

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