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| imac g4 installing a floppy drive | |
| Posted by: Macintoshguy1984 on 2016-11-13 18:17:13 I was wondering if it was possible to install a internal floppy drive in a imac g4 running 10.2 and 9.1_i think) | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2016-11-13 18:58:07 Where would you even put it? And no, there's no controller on the board. You'd need to use a USB external. | |
| Posted by: Macintoshguy1984 on 2016-11-13 19:40:23 Is there a pci card i could get?? | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2016-11-13 19:42:57 There's no PCI slot.  Nor is there a lot of room period. The hard drive sits on top of the optical drive, and the fan sits on top of that. | |
| Posted by: Macintoshguy1984 on 2016-11-13 21:03:06 Oh, sorry I ment the power mac g4 ( my mistake) | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-11-14 00:58:00 Then yes, room-wise, but still only a USB one. There's no circuitry for a native Mac floppy on any desktop machine after the Beige G3. | |
| Posted by: Macintoshguy1984 on 2016-11-14 08:16:22 ok, thanks | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2016-11-14 16:15:38 What about LS-120 IDE drives in place of the ZIP drive? | |
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2016-11-14 20:11:35 That would work fine, although LS-120 drives don't support 400k/800k Macintosh floppies, only 1.4M. | |
| Posted by: waynestewart on 2016-11-16 09:14:53 There are SCSI floppy drives you could use. Again you couldn't use 400/800k disks | |
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