Mac Floppy Drive in a PC?

dstranathandstranathan
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
If I take out a 1.44 MB floppy drive from a beige G3 Mac, and put it in a PC running Win 2K, will it work?



Does a Mac floppy drive work on a PC? Is there something propratary about Mac floppy drive decices? Seems to me all the Mac-specific floppy stuff occurs in the OS and software and not hardware, right?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    brain fart... nevermind you are talking about a floppy drive, not disk...

    AFAIK as long as the drive will work with generic floppy drivers it should work...
  • Reply 2 of 3
    fotnsfotns Posts: 301member
    No it won't work. Mac floppies got their power through the ribbon cable, while PCs have a 4 pin mini Molex connector for power.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    dstranathandstranathan Posts: 1,717member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by FotNS

    No it won't work. Mac floppies got their power through the ribbon cable, while PCs have a 4 pin mini Molex connector for power.



    BINGO! Thanks. I knew that there MUST be a reason...
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