On 28/04/2005, at 10:15 AM, damien haas wrote:
Hi Damien,Hi all;
my dad has an emac running 0s x 10.3.8
he also has a powermac 550/225.
he wants to use diskettes (!) on teh new emac, so i bought a lacie usb diskette drive.
problem.
the new drive and emac will only recognise ibm formatted diskettes which he has acquired from other people (hes a retired academic) with mainly ms-word documents on them.
there is no ethernet port on the powermac.
is there a solution ?
googling leads me to believe that the usb diskette drives or os x itself will only recognise later diskette formats and not 800k or dd diskettes.
ideas ?
damien
if my thoughts are right the 5500 should have a spare pci slot. If you can track down a mac compatible ethernet card, then you could network the 2 machines using a crossover cable. What OS are you running on the 5500? I have been able to get a generic RealTek 8139 driver to run on OS 9.2. This card was just a $20 generic PC ethernet card that had the number 8139b printed on the largest chip. If you can track down one of these cards (I think they are fairly common) I can email you the driver. Other than that, I have a CommSlot 2 ethernet card which you can have, but I am not 100% sure if it works, since I have never tested it. Obviously you would need a type 2 communications slot for that to work, but it should be easily recognised by Mac OS.
I hope some of that helps! - Berwyck
-- Berwyck Poad PhD Student Laser Spectroscopy Group School of Chemistry University of Melbourne
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