cdoublejj Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Mac OS X has always had USB floppy drive support since at least Public Preview or 10.0.However what I want to know is whether Mac OS X (Hackintosh) could support PC's internal floppy controller and drive. EDIT: waht about LS120 drives, they are IDE and read floppies? EDIT!!! 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 LS120 drives can read/write SD and HD floppies Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1969709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 See no sense to spend my time trying to do floppy support. All info on them obsolete and serve only to funny memory: how it was 20 years ago. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1970869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Sure it servers a purpose...digital archaeology/preservation. What if you want to read something on a floppy from 20 years ago? http://www.kryoflux.com/ http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/catweasel_e.htm http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html http://discferret.com/wiki/DiscFerret http://www.cbmstuff.com/news.htm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1970889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zarac Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Well, you could say the same thing about punchcards or 8mm film. Of course there are media in the wild, but I don't want to buy a device just to read a 20-year-old floppy. There should be specialists for that kind of work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1970893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Freeman Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 USB floppies work. They're just treated as removable storage. I don't even have a board with a floppy controller to try and test an internal one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1970906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdoublejj Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 See no sense to spend my time trying to do floppy support. All info on them obsolete and serve only to funny memory: how it was 20 years ago. not if you have to work on say a specilized 1 of a kind computer and you need a floppy support to work on/update the bios. say this computer is proprietary and runs a super expensive autmated machine that costs 10s of thousands of dollars to repalce. I actualy had a job like that in past year or two. it would have costthe cleint $25,000 USD to replace the machine. it wasn' any thing fancy, it was custom proprietaty mobo witha pentium 4 cpu. also archivla purpouses of i havea ton of old games on floppies. I do have a DDR3 LLGA775 mobo with floppy and IDE. it's like my legacy machine. it can play the latest games yet i can still use it towork with old mediums when ineed to. it's kind of the best of both worlds. Sure it servers a purpose...digital archaeology/preservation. What if you want to read something on a floppy from 20 years ago? http://www.kryoflux.com/ http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/catweasel_e.htm http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html http://discferret.com/wiki/DiscFerret http://www.cbmstuff.com/news.htm I've seen some of thos but, i don't think they let you convert internal flopy to USB in the tradional sense, i don't think it implents its a USB floppy but, rather works mainly/just for imaging purposes. i'm gonna look over them a little further. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1983102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdoublejj Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 just wanted to add this, http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1uyx1h/i_work_for_a_savvy_biotech_company_and_found_this/ Depending on the company, some still use these to program equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The machines can run for decades, and updating them simply for USB/CD loading files when it's otherwise fine for production purposes is a waste of money. Seems backwards but when it saves you millions it seems worth it. There are still pieces of equipment sold brand-new that require the use of a floppy drive. Here's one example[1] . That thing costs $50k, and the floppy is the only way to upgrade its firmware. http://www.home.agilent.com/en/pd-1000000858%3Aepsg%3Apro-pn-4294A/precision-impedance-analyzer-40-hz-to-110-mhz?&cc=US&lc=eng I might try an LS120 drive in my IDE bay and see if i can read and write floppy form with in MtLion. though it would be nice to use the existign internal floppy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1986187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 If you speak about hundreds of thousands of dollars you always can find other way to read your floppy beginning from Windows machine. To reflash a BIOS you may use the floppy without MacOSX. To reflash a VideoBIOS I had to make USB bootable stick with Win98 DOS instead of floppy. Anyway the world knows that floppies no more exists and propose ways to work without them. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-1994307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdoublejj Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 YEAH!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292367-108-floppy-support/#findComment-2030939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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