Floppy drive support in OSX. Any new solutions lately?

Hello,
I read that floppy drive support does not exist in OSX. Is this still the case today? Has anyone released any successful third party OSX floppy drivers lately that are known to work well?
My beige G3 has an internal floppy drive and in OSX the floppy drive is not recognized. This is simply the nature of OSX - there is no floppy drive support in any version of OSX - as far as I am aware.
I am writing this post to ask anyone if there are any new solutions to this issue. I see that there are some third party drivers but they seem to have negative reviews and cause more problems that it is worth.
(I might have to just use my external USB floppy drive that is attached to my other computer. However, it would be nice if I could use my built-in floppy drive on my beige)
Thanks.
PS
For anyone interested, here is one work around solution that I found for using the floppy drive. Its not as convenient, however, it is a solution: Restart the computer, insert an OS9 install CD and hold down the "C" key to boot up from the OS9 CD. The computer will now be in OS9 and the floppy will work. Copy your floppy files direct to the hard drive (i.e. don't use the desktop).

Without reliable OS X floppy drivers, you would have to resort to rebooting into OS 8 or 9 to use the floppy drive.
I wonder if anyone has considered mounting a USB floppy drive in that space. Some PCI cards have internal FW ports, but if you had an internal USB port, then possibly you could do some kind of custom installation, removing the stock floppy drive.
I think I would be more interested in putting a digital camera memory card reader in that floppy drive bay, or even a front panel USB port for use with a keychain USB drive. Anyone know of a way to put a USB port on the inside of your Desktop case?
Currently I use an external USB extension cord, maybe I could knock out the unused modem jack cover plate and snake the cable into there...maybe that's too much trouble.
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