[G5] A Stupid Question..

[Valerie Maples]

All the external USB floppy drives I have found read PC 1.44 (HD) and Mac1.6
(HD), but not Mac 800 (DD), even if they read PC 720 (DD).  All my old Mac
games were on DD, so I had to transfer them to the old Mac HD, and then copy
that to a HD disk.  What a pain!  Best I know you cannot hurt anything, you
just may not be able to access them.

If your old Mac is toast and you have DD disks, you will have to find a
machine to copy to HD disks.  Hope that makes sense.

Valerie


On 2/18/05 6:37 PM, "Pat" <patdart at cox.net> wrote:

> Help again...what is the difference?  What happens if they are the
> wrong kind?  And how do I tell the difference?
> 
> Pat
> On Feb 18, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:
> 
>> Be careful!  The external floppy drives I have found cannot read the DD
>> disks, only HD.  If someone finds an external USB floppy drive that
>> reads
>> both, please let me know.
>> 
>> Valerie
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/18/05 5:39 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I'm cleaning out and rearranging my computer desk and files.  I have
>>>> a
>>>> number of floppies with good 'stuff' on them, and a floppy reader,
>>>> but
>>>> need to know if I can just plug it into the G5 iMac and download all
>>>> that data and photos without any thing else being done.  I want to
>>>> burn
>>>> it onto a CD for archiving. I don't think I had any software for it.
>>>> 
>>>>   Any help out there?
>>> 
>>> By a "Floppy Reader" I assume you mean a USB Floppy drive?  If so you
>>> should
>>> be able to simply plug it in.  I've done that with my G5 2x2, and
>>> I've even
>>> used it with Virtual PC 7.0 to boot and install MS-DOS 6.22.
>>> 
>>> You'll want to tell the Mac to "eject" each floppy, though I assume
>>> you'll
>>> have to do that manually once it's been removed from the Mac desktop.
>>> 
>>> Zane
> 
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