3 1/2 inch floppy disk driver mac osx

I have many 3 1/2 inch floppies. I have a USB 3 1/2 inch floppy drive that works fine, Using Disk Utility, my Intel iMac running OS 10.6.8 sees the drive and the floppy (grayed out) but will mount the floppy. Is there a driver I need that will help with this? Thanks, [email protected]

Depends on the drive. If it uses the standard USB mass storage protocols then it will work like any other USB drive. Otherwise, drivers will be needed.

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The Mac will save files to a 3.5 inch floppy disk.

You could write the files to a PC formatted floppy, you might be able to do File Sharing from it to the PC with an Ethernet cable.
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I need a floppy disk drive for old 3 1/2" disks. I have a PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.4 operating system. What external drive will for for me?

Hi,
Providing that the old 3.5" floppies are 1.44 MB HD disks, you should be able to use a USB floppy drive.
However, if the disks are 2DD/DSDD in the 800K Mac format a USB drive is not going to work. In this case you would need a suitable semi-old Macintosh computer with a built-in floppy drive as an intermediary.
Jan

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While back, my 3.5 inch floppy disk started jam.
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But my computer turned on with out no problem.
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Hi, mac gart -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
If the internal battery in that machine is old, try replacing it. The Beige/Platinum G3's are known for having boot problems when that battery is too weak or dead.
Once the battery has been replaced, also reset the PRAM -
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Are you able to boot the machine to an OS 9 Install CD?
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where can I buy an external floppy disk drive for my Macbook?

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Does anyone know of an FDD for a mavericks mac? I would like to create boot disks for an old mac. Is this a good method to consider? I am not sure how else to go about this. If there is an alternative, whatever it might be, please let me know.
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www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
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HI Carey, thanks for this, But this is under System Center Virtual Machine Manager. I already saw this a while ago.
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