I bought a "NuDesign " Magneto Optical drive for my MacIIx years ago and had nothing but problems with it. It quit working while it was still under warrantee and was replaced by the vendor. I was going to use it to back up all my floppies, but it had other ideas. I spent days loading and arranging floppies and putting them onto the 'huge' 256M disks. The more critical the software the more likely the disk was to not be recognized, and the 'orange light of death' to show. I noticed all the later MO drives dropped the 256M format and went to a smaller 23? format. Maybe there is a connection here? Most of my 25 disks are unreadable now and I can't even retrieve the data from them. Has any one else had such miserable luck with MO drives, and is there any good drivers out there for them? Now I'm using a relatively new 8600 on OS9.1 I am hoping someone has had a similar problem and can direct me to a solution. I still have my old MacIIx with its Video frame grabber and the indestructible 13" monitor. I can still hook my MO up to the 8600 but it doesn't recognize disk very often. I haven't tried it on OS9.1 yet, last time was on 8.1.
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