IIRC, you could no longer use 400k disks as of System 7.6, but you can
still use 800k disks up through System 9, provided of course that you
have a Mac with an internal floppy drive. The external USB drives are,
for the most part, PC clone laptop style drives, and therefore can not
read or write the GCR disks. But, you _can_ write 400k floppies on
System 7.6 and up with Disk Copy. You can't mount the image, and you
can't mount the disk you created, but it does work. Once again, you
have to have a Mac with an internal floppy drive. Why Apple stopped
offering floppy drives, I don't know. I know that the first peripheral
I bought for my G4 was a floppy drive, and I still hate the fact that
it's slow as hell, and doesn't have auto eject.
Ian Primus
ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 04:39 PM, chris wrote:
>>> Apple stopped having the drives read and write 400 and 800 k disks a
>>> while ago.
>>
>> Actually the System does that... I don't remember when though.
>
> Well, yes, I didn't mean to imply that it was a drive limit. Just that
> Apple stopped letting a user read and write 400 and 800 K disks a while
> ago (I believe you are right and it was OS 8, but I'm not postive).
>
> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
Received on Mon Oct 06 2003 - 17:24:23 BST