Imation USB SuperDisk

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.spamless.net>]

Bought a Mac G4 a couple of weeks ago and of course one of my first
thoughts was how to transfer files to and from my Apple IIs. It turns
out my 200mb Syquest works even better under OSX than it does under 9
so that did me for a couple weeks. I suspect one of the programmers also
likes that drive and made sure it worked.

Still I missed floppies for moving small files, so on coming across
a USB SuperDisk I thought I'd give it a try. Under OSX about what
I expected 1.44mb floppies only and no ProDOS support at all.
So I thought lets try OS9. Booted into OS9 and "happy days" 1.44mb
ProDOS floppies mount and read fine. I haven't been able to write to
a ProDOS floppy for several MacOSs but I thought maybe a USB floppy
drive is different. Same result, the Mac locked up solid so I did what
I've done before, shut off the power and restart. Now I get a
difference, it won't restart, just a flashing folder and no startup.
After zapping the pram it's back up again. Maybe I'll stick to just
reading ProDOS floppies unless of course there's an alternative!

Anyone using 9.2 tried reading or writing ProDOS floppies on a SCSI or
ide SuperDisk or for that matter any of the USB floppy drives?


	Wayne