G4 floppy disk

Hello ,
I have an old version of Cubase VST [4.1],and I would like to use it with my G4 ,just to have fun. Because this software has a protection system with a floppy disk ,I need to use a floppy disk drive with my G4, to authorise my hard disk for use with Cubase VST.
Would it be possible to connect a pc floppy disk drive? It happens to have one sitting.Could I use a pc cable,or do I need a special cable to connect it ?

Would it be possible to connect a pc floppy disk drive?
Only if it is a USB drive. Albeit special Mac driver software may be needed, many of the USB floppy drives (connected to a normal USB port) are usable for both platforms.
Please note that a USB floppy drive cannot handle 800K Mac-formatted floppies (only 1.44 MB).
Also, even if a USB drive would be compatible, do not automatically expect a program on the floppy disk to work with the G4. You may face both hardware and software limitations.
Jan

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The error message continue also if i stop the application that generated report on a: .
I've got this problem only on a pc: on other machines i don't have this problem (Labview only continues to access floppy but it doesn't show any window).
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prova.vi ‏55 KB

Hi,
I tried your vi: I don't get any error message after removing the disk but LV7 keeps on accessing the drive at regular intervals even if you stop the vi and close it!!! This is not supposed to happen.
The only way to stop it is exit LV7.
If you don't use the file dialog and you wire a full path, you don't get any problem.
I also created a very simple vi that conditionally writes a text file on a: and I got the same behaviour.
This problem occurs only with LV7, I tried the same examples in LV6.1 and everything was fine.
If anybody wants to try I attach this simple example,
Alberto
Attachments:
salva_testo1.vi ‏22 KB

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Please help me!
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This is news to me. Can I ask then...
I have a Macintosh Classic I got from eBay. All is good, but the Finder is password protected, and there is no way to get it.
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Hi all, Can anyone tell me if I buy and external floppy disk drive - compatible
with Mac... will it transfer photos to my Mac if the floppy were created on
a Windows computer?
-or-
If I put the floppy disk photos on a CD-R using a Windows computer... will
the photos on the CD transfer to /or/ be readable by my Mac computer?
-or-
Am I just wasting my time with this and I should just throw the windows created floppy disks away. I no longer own a windows computer (it died)
and all I have is my new iBook. But, I would really like to figure out how
to trasfer the photos created on my deceased Windows computer and
stored on floppy disks over to my Mac computer. I have tried one (supposedly) Mac compatible external floopy disk drive... when I loaded
the (Windows created) floppy disk, my Mac was not able to view the
photos.
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You will probably be able to use an external floppy drive to transfer the photos to the Mac, and you can do this with a CD-R. Some floppy disk formats are not supported on all platforms, and 800KB Mac floppies cannot be used in an USB floppy drive.
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Thank you Dean Huffy. Yes, I recall it was an omnibook. I loved the compactness of the thing. And it had enough heft one could throw it like a brick at someone's head if they made fun of it. Your advice alone is worth the $30 and elegant in its simplicty.
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