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USB Floppy drive

rNx

# 1
Caterpillar

Posts: 35 from 2010/10/26

From: Finland

Anyone used one in a PowerMac? I have Iomega usb floppy drive and It's regogniced as a X1DE-USB in prefs, whenever I insert a disk, I get "Warning massstorage.class Simple SCSI: START_STOP_UNIT command" and "massstorage.class Trying to mount unit 0 via Morphos mount.library" but nothing after that. Is there a way to get this thing working?
»17.11.10 - 17:34

Jeckel

# 2
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 133 from 2007/3/11

I have the same iomega floppy drive.
I use it on a Pegasos2 (with a NEC USB 2.0 Card); it is actually recognized as a X1DE-USB.

It works fine with already formated discs (and I have the same warning as yours). But with unformated discs I have to mount them manually before I can format them.

[ Edited by Jeckel on 2010/11/17 20:21 ]
»17.11.10 - 18:17

bash64

# 3
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 958 from 2010/10/28

From: USA

Works fine.
I use a standard usb floppy drive for a laptop.
Mac G5 ISight 21" 2.5 gb of ram 233gb hd matshita dvd-r uj-846
Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 2GB, ATI 9700M Pro 128mb
1TB hd, DL-DVD Burner, Netgear pcmcia wireless card.
ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 3.3, PhotoGenics 5.0
»18.11.10 - 00:45

magnetic

# 4
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1

From: Los Angeles

hi jeckel read only right? What about amiga 880k? its 1.44 only?
Pegasos 2 Rev 2B3 w/ Freescale 7447 "G4" @ 1ghz / 1gb Nanya Ram
Quad Boot: MorphOS 2.7 | Amiga OS4.1 U4 | Ubuntu PPC GNU/Linux | OS X 10.4
»18.11.10 - 03:39

spirantho

# 5
Caterpillar

Posts: 23 from 2003/4/25

I would be very surprised if it supported Amiga formats....

You need a Catweasel for that. :)
Ian Gledhill
ian.gledhill@btinternit.com (but it's a nEt, not a nIt)
»18.11.10 - 06:45

Jeckel

# 6
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 133 from 2007/3/11

It works for MS-DOS 1.44M and 720K floppy disks (in read, write and format)... but it is slower than a real internal drive.

No other format (such as Amiga 1.76M or 880K) will work. You actually need a Catweasel to handle them (but it doesn't work reliable -yet?- on MorphOS).
»18.11.10 - 07:04

rNx

# 7
Caterpillar

Posts: 35 from 2010/10/26

From: Finland

Ok, I tested more disks, and apparently some of them do work (all preformated dos disks). Unfortunately not all. They work on Windows though. I also noted, "Free" and "Total" are calculated wrong, first I didn't even know it wast the floppy, since it said it was 975MB :)
»18.11.10 - 08:52