On Apr 23, 2004, at 07:24 am, Paul Kurtz wrote:
This is a "feature?" of OS X. It disables the built in floppy drives on
those macs that have one. You can still use a usb floppy though.
The floppy drive is not disabled, it's just not supported any longer. All OS X supported machines have access to a bootable CD drive and thus it was decided by the great and the good at Apple that, as all recent Mac software is supplied on CD anyway, that the floppy drive (a medium I personally think is redundant on a modern computer anyway, but some places still use) was no longer required. This is also the reason that all 'Aqua' machines and later have no floppy.
There is, out there somewhere, an open source driver for the Apple SWIM chip that was originally written for OS X Server 10.1 but works, AFAIK, on all Darwin based OSs, including 10.2 and 10.3.
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