Re: Older Powerbook capable of writing 800K IIgs compatible floppies?

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

On 10/02/2012 01:02 AM, D Finnigan wrote:
> waynejstewart wrote:
>> 
>> Running 10.4 it doesn't see any disk in the floppy drive.
>>
> 
> That seems to be a common problem with Old World Macs and OS X. My desktop
> G3 won't do anything with the built-in floppy drive when it's booted in to
> 10.2.

It's a known problem, OS X doesn't support classic Mac floppy drives,
nor a bunch of other hardware inside the Beige G3 desktop and the
Powerbook G3 "Wall Street" (or earlier); the only solution is not
running OS X on those Old World ROM machines. They weren't really
designed for it anyways.

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Linards Ticmanis