Re: Add normal floppy drive to Power Mac G4?

2016-07-27 Thread Charles Lenington

On 7/23/16 4:43 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:

On 7/22/16 5:24 PM, JackMacWindows wrote:

Hello,
I have an old Power Mac G4 Digital Audio, and I would like to add on a
floppy drive to read

Jack I have some usb zip drives if you need one.

Do you have a SCSI card in that DA?  Use of a SCSI zip with the USB 
would be the easiest.
I'm looking for a usb floppy I have around somewhere. When I find it 
I'll let you know.


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Re: Add normal floppy drive to Power Mac G4?

2016-07-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > There is no connector on the board for a "normal" floppy. I've seen 
> > some folks shoehorn it into a USB enclosure in one of the 5.25" bays and 
> > connect that up, however. 
> 
> I am aware there is no floppy connector on the motherboard, but I wanted to 
> know if there is a cheap way to convert to IDE or add a floppy controller 
> card via PCI.

IDE, no.

There are ISA floppy controller cards, but I don't know of any PCI ones,
let alone ones with Mac drivers. You really would be better off with a
hacked-in USB approach.

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