Drivers for IDE floppy drive?

Hello!
I have an old 400mhz Sawtooth G4, booting into both 10.4.9 and 9.2.2. I also have some disks I need to access - 3.5" floppy disks! (Phew!) We had a Iomega (Imation?) USB "Superdisk" drive, but when I tried it, I found that the enclosure didn't work - the power plug was damaged.
So, I figured "Well, it's a IDE drive on the inside, so why not put it into the G4's empty ZIP slot? I was able to buy an adapter that converts from the standard 4-pin power cables that are inside the G4 to the kind on the floppy, and was able to get the drive plugged in as a slave drive to the DVD drive. Under OS X, it comes up and reads just fine! Under OS 9, it won't work. It just sits there, reading and reading, waiting for the OS to ask for it... I need to be able to read some of these disks under OS 9, so although OS X supports the drive, it won't work.
So, is it possible to find floppy drives for IDE drives, compatible with OS 9.2.2? I know that the old Beige G3 Mac has a floppy drive, and will run OS 9, so I figure that there has to be a driver somewhere; not to mention that OS 10.4 has a built in driver. All I need is 1.4 MB support, not the "Superdisk's" fancy proprietary 120MB disk support.
-Dan
PS: If I can get OS 9 to read the disks, how can I make a duplicate copy? Or more specifically, a "virtual" copy - a disk image - which I can use as backup? I've used OS X for this purpose before (on CDs), but 9 won't read X's images.

Hi, Dan -
You may need to download and install the latest driver for OS 9 for that drive. You can get that here -
Imation - USBSuperDisk Driver 3.3a
Note - that's a direct download link, about 370MB.
If I can get OS 9 to read the disks, how can I make a duplicate copy? Or more specifically, a "virtual" copy - a disk image - which I can use as backup? I've used OS X for this purpose before (on CDs), but 9 won't read X's images.
For a simple backup, you can just copy the floppy to the hard drive - it will appear there as a folder.
If you need an actual disk image, you can use the Disk Copy utility which is included with all standard OS 9 installs to make a disk image of the floppy.

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