3.5' USB External Floppy Disk Drive Portable 1.44 MB FDD PC Windows. The VST floppy drive brings more functionality to your USB-equipped Mac or PC. Copy the updated BIOS file to floppy disk or USB drive. (Note: BIOS file and boot files should fit on a floppy disk. If the BIOS file is too large to fit with boot files, consider using the EZ Flash method described below.) Insert the motherboard support CD into optical drive. Copy AFUDOS.EXE from CD to a floppy disk or USB drive.
I just picked up a VST USB floppy and was going to use it with my iBook. BUT: It appears that the VST drive has no OS 10 drivers. It comes with 9.x drivers, but they aren't even needed under 9 (the OS already recognizes the drive). Under a 10.1 prerelease (5g48) (not sure about 10.0.4--probably the same). Unless the disk is in the drive when the drive is plugged into the computer, the computer doesn't recognize that a disk is inserted. Does anyone have the drop on any drivers for VST drives under 10.x or know of any portable USB or firewire floppy drives that are 10.x compatible???
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No But if you don't pay attention when someone is trying to tell you something, you'll just go around in circles until you start. I said, 'most any of them will work but' what that means is they will write and read back just fine BUT (now this this where you NEED TO PAY ATTENTION) They will not - repeat will not read old Mac formatted DD (dual density) disks!
When I said 1.2Mb, I was misremembering. The original Apple HD disks were actually 800kb. To achieve that they used a CLV (constant linear velocity) format that required the drive to spin at variable speed!
The issue is NOT with the driver OR the filesystem - it's the way Steve Jobs, as usual, jumped the pack first in 1984 and crammed more data onto the same disks that everyone else was using, and damn the fact that it was incompatible with everything else. Sound familiar? In 1987, IBM spit up a new 1.44Mb format and said 'Nyah nyah nyah' to Apple.
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