External floppy drive

[Michael A. Peters]

At this point most will work. I think it would be difficult to find one that
didn't.

A usb floppy is just a standard pc floppy in a usb housing - as long as you
have usb mass storage (or whatever the 2.4 kernel equiv is) it should work.

I *think* kudzu will even detect and configure it for you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Ussery" <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: External floppy drive


> I need to buy a cheap external USB floppy drive in order to retrieve
> some old files generated on my former Linux box (a Dell) before I got my
> iMac & installed YDL 3.0. (Macs no longer come with floppy drives.)
>
> Anybody in a position to recommend particular brands of external USB
> floppy drives that work with both MacOSX & LinuxPPC? I've been looking
> at the Y-E Data site. They offer a USB floppy drive that
> reads/writes/formats 2HD 1.44 MB floppies (which is what I'm working
> with) and supports MacOS8.6 and higher "as well as other 'Mass Storage
> Compliant' operating systems including many *nix systems."
>
> Or am I making too big a deal of the question? Is an external floppy
> drive such as this likely to be like the typical after-market
> mouse--just plug it in to any OS and it works?
>
> Thanks for elucidation/recommendations.    --Harvey
>
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