>Do you mean you'd like to be able to use a USB 120MB Superdrive with the
>2300?
This is indeed what I would like to
>Unless someone comes up with a SCSI-USB convertor (a device that
>would attach to the SCSI bus and provide a USB port, probably possible but
>not simple), you
>can't.
I had expected exactly this (SCSI-USB converter) to appear in the market
after the introduction of USB for Macs � after all it would be a solution
which makes current USB-only devices available to the owners of older
(and in fact recent) Apple models. Can it be that there is really no such
device offered by any manufacturer?
>However, Imation (ne� 3M) and other licensee companies made 120MB and
>smaller floptical drives (for this is what it is) long before the
>Superdrive; they just didn't market them very well (lack of blue plastic
>perhaps ;). It is still possible to find SCSI 120MB floptical drives,
>though they were never common. In fact I used to use a similar 20MB
>floptical as the 1.44MB floppy drive for a Duo, before I had a desktop
>Dock. It wasn't a perfect solution because some software installers
>(especially those that look for copy-protected original disks) wouldn't see
>the drive as a Sony floppy mechanism (which it wasn't), but it did the job
>otherwise. There's software now to make the Imation USB drive mimic a real
>Mac floppy, but it probably wouldn't recognise the older SCSI models.
This is very interesting. Would you be so kind and provide more specific
product information? And: Were the devices you used compatible with
Apple's "Easy Open" software? Did you experience any problems with
reading/writing (formatting) DOS floppies?
Thanks anyway for the concise info on the subject.
Edgar
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