Re: Imation USB SuperDisk

["24 Carrot Balla" <d.pimpologist@verizon.net>]

Do you know what an Apple2 is ?  It's a computer that went from a 6502
processor to the 65816 beast that power the almighty Apple IIgs!  Post your
question in a Macintosh group!  Sure you know how to find them.  Usually
have the word "mac" in them, eh?

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.spamless.net> wrote in message
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> 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
>