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internal 3.5 1.44mb floppy in a G4B&W or G4 mac?

supernova777

supernova777

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Dec 22, 2007
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has anyone ever accomplished this?
yes i know i can get a usb floppy drive but i really would rather it in the tower itself under the cd tray rather then the zip drive that is there now..
alot of hardware i get comes with drivers on floppies + obscure software bought from ebay etc

i was talking to a friend about the possibility of using a imation superdrive
as a floppy drive he said that it connected via standard 40pin IDE

anyone have any experience ?
im hoping to hear a yes..;) dont wnat to waste my time..
 
I really don't think that there's any way a traditional floppy drive would be possible. Even if it was, it wouldn't work under OS X.

An LS-120 drive in place of the ZIP drive might be doable. Let me dig out an internal one(I think I have a few around somewhere) and I'll experiment and see what I find.
 
I hope you have luck with this. I haven't.

I have tried using an LS-120 ata drive mounted inside a beige G3 and a B&W with no luck. Was not seen with the following: 10.2, 9.1, 8.6. I was tempted to mount a usb drive internally and connect it to a usb pci card, but I never obtained a usb floppy drive to try this.
 
You could try mounting a USB version internally attached to an internal usb port, I suppose. It's either that or a Powerbook G3 if you must have an internal LS-120/floppy.
 
Intell said:
There's no such thing as an IDE floppy. The closest you'll get is a ZIP drive.
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There certainly is but not on Mac (except Powerbooks). The LS-120 came in several flavours including ATAPI. I have one in my old PC used for flashing PC cards to Mac on the odd occasion. That boots from the ATAPI LS-120 floppy drive.
 
ATAPI is packet ATA and is a different subset of PATA/IDE/SATA, mostly used by optical drives. IDE/PATA is the protocol used by hard drives.
 
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