wow this is great news. i'm not 100% sure the disks i have are the 800kb ones.. they are maybe HD.. so my question is after reading this.
where can i find this "Apple USB Device Extension"? how do I install it into the system?
as it is right now. I have two usb external floppy drives.. the generic pc one and the macally drive that don't work on my OS9 system. They both work on my OSX system so the drives are not bad, just not seen by the system.
to clarify also.. at this time i'm just using pc formatted floppies (MSDOS) which the OSX macbook pro can see just fine.
The OS9 sawtooth doesn't even seem to try and read. Nothing appears on the desktop which i would expect to be what happens like using a usb (msdos formatted) thumb drive i have or cd roms (even pc cds') at least appear as something they can read from.
I will see if i can find an original superdrive eventually but i'm thinking that maybe the macally drive will read some, just not ALL.. and maybe that's all I need. we'll see once i can pop them in, but for now I just would like to know what I can do to get the drives I do have to work.
Also getting somewhat daring.. I do have a Mac Classic in my studio with a working drive. However I doubt that drive would interface with a usb external adapter. My need is pretty minimal.. basically 2-3 old software programs and i was looking to be able to migrate some old software online i downloaded (turbosynth) and see if i could move it over to the mac... I did get the MSDOS approach to work but apparently the MSDOS formatting mangles the files (8 character limit, etc) into things the OS6 system doesn't understand..
So in short, any suggestions on how i can configure my OS 9.2.2 system to recognize any usb floppy drives? It sounds like you had a solution I just didn't have any luck finding a file to download and install.
Thanks!
Caleb