External floppy drive

[Thurston Ackerman]

Harvey Ussery wrote:

> 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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the SmartDisk Titanium edition will handle most present day Macs and 
PCs  Why not ask at:

    www.info.smartdisk.com

and see it can manage your linux distro needs?

Ciao, Ack