Nec Floppy Usb Driver For Mac
Posted : admin On 04.10.2019I have a powerbook G4. It is this model: I am running tiger - 10.4.11 I bought a modern USB Mac/Windows USB floppy drive.
The drive said it needed no software for a Mac or a windows box. Just plug and play. I plugged in the USB floppy drive.
Apr 13, 2009 Now - on Device Manager, under Floppy disk drives it is written: NEC USB UF000x USB Device with an yellow sign, but under Universal Serial Bus controllers - the 'NEC USB Floppy' is without any mark sign (device status: This device is working properly.) I've removed (uninstalled) these items many times, without any result.
Stuck in a floppy. The light on the floppy drive lights up and I hear it running, but nothing on my desktop. I have Toast 6 titanium installed.
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When I look at the system profile, it will see my USB floppy drive. It IDs it as TEACV 2.0. Do I need to do some magic so that tiger can see this drive? I install a floppy and nothing appears on my desktop. I have used floppies that are good - they work in my Color Classic. I have installed new floppies and working floppies but nothing shows up on my desktop.
I must be doing something wrong, but I am not sure what. Any suggestions? Thanks mraroid. It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong, but that something isn't working right. I have a Teac USB drive as well.
If you plug in the floppy drive without a disk inserted, the motor should run and it should make ticking noises periodically as the OS polls it to see if a disk is in the drive. If it doesn't, then something is likely wrong with the drive, or there may be a power issue at the USB port. Try a different port. If the drive does behave as I've described above, try inserting a floppy after connecting the drive and seeing if it appears on the desktop. If it doesn't, open a Finder window and see if it's in the sidebar. (Perhaps removable devices aren't set to display as icons on the desktop.).
If it doesn't appear in the Finder, open Disk Utility from /Applications/Utilities and see if the drive and disk are there. That was a very good tip rsolberg. When it is plugged in, I can hear the clicking sound.
Same in both USB ports on my powerbook. Going to disk utility I can see the USB floppy drive. When I stick a disk in it, it can not read it. It will not format it or partition it. I took a fresh floppy and formatted it on my CC II.
I stuck it in the floppy drive, and it just clicked and clicked and clicked. Once I had a white drive appear on my desktop. I tried to drop a small file into it. When I did that, the white desktop drive disappeared. I ran some hardware tests on my powerbook.
Floppy Disk Adapter To Usb
All came back clean. Maybe I have a bad USB floppy drive.? What version of OSX are you running bibilit? The USB cable that comes out of the USB drive is hard wired at the USB floppy end, and has the USB plug on the other. I have two USB ports on my powerbook. I unplugged my mouse and tried one USB port. I tried the other USB port.
The USB plug looks OK, and the floppy works just fine in my windows 10 box. I think I am just going to have to buy another here in Ecuador (If I can find such a thing), or pay the big $$ for postage and have one shipped to me from the US. Not sure what else to try other than changing the version of OSX on my powerbook. @mraroid - is it this kind of floppy drive?: Bought one very cheap (11€) from a seller in Hong Kong.
Turns out the thing doesn't work on any of my Macs. It does shows at 'TEACV-something' in the system infos when plugged to a Mac running 10.5 though. I've disassemble it and the control card inside is old and dirty.
Tried cleaning but doesn't change a thing. So I believe they use old floppy drives (even no working), stuff them in new very basic cases and sell them off the bay. Some work, some don't. No wonder they are so cheap. I'm trying to get a refund just for the fun of it Reminds me the story of the 500Gb USB external drive sold cheaper than any other in China, turned out to have a 4Gb USB storage inside and a chip 'faking' a 500Gb drive.
Each time you'd write something it would fill the 4Gb, then erase it, then write the rest and so on. Plus there was a steel bolt glued inside the case to make the weight. Good luck I guess, let us know how that goes. I have an iBook G4 14' (A1134) running 10.4.11 as well and I just tested a Dell branded TEAC USB floppy drive that I have with it. It didn't seem to mind accessing the disk and copying a file from it. Given that I doubt you need an OS upgrade.
How expensive is ordering/shipping from the US to down there? If you haven't already you should try plugging in/using handful of other USB devices (mouse, keyboard, flash drive) to see if there's anything wonky with the USB port, although a dead/messed up USB floppy drive (dirty read/write heads?) seems a little more likely. Edited June 21, 2017 by Nathan. This is the drive I bought: I bought it around the end of may 2016. I did not use it until a week or two ago.
It can read and write in my windows 10 box. I like the powered USB hub idea the best.
I can buy this here in Ecuador. People use FedeX or DHL if you want your stuff to arrive. A few sheets of paper form the US to here via FedeX is around $70. I handfull of caps, resistors, and some diodes cost around $170. So shipping is really rough here.
I don't think I can find a USB floppy drive here, but I will look around. Thanks for ther additional info. It was an excellent suggestion to connect a powered USB hub to my powerbook to see if that would make my USB floppy drive work. My powered USB hub arrived last night.
I am sorry to say, it was a failure. I am so.&^%$# off that I can not get this floppy drive to work on my powerbook. Maybe I need to buy another brand. It is so costly and time consuming to ship things to Ecuador.
I need a computer or workig floppy to support my Color Classic. If anyone here has gotten a floppy drive to work in my Powerbook G4, please post the name and model number. I will give it another try. This is th eexact model number of my Powerbook G4: This is tht eexact floppy drive I bought: My last thought is to upgrade to the next version of OSX.
I have a apple branded copy of Leopard. But I prefer to run older versions of OSX unless I have to. The floppy drive works great under Windows 10. I can format and write to the floppy. I can use my Color Classic to format a floppy disk, and then put that floppy into the floppy drive connected to my Powerbook. But writing to it or reading from it, is a total failure. Thanks for the many tips folks!
It was a great idea. I will keep lookig for a solution.
I'm sorry to hear the powered hub didn't help. The floppy drive works under Windows 10, so you know it's OK. I remember reading somewhere that G4 Macs only support USB 1.0, not USB 1.1 or 2.0. If that's true, maybe your floppy drive doesn't work correctly when falling back to USB 1.0 speed? What exactly is it that you're trying to do with your Color Classic and Powerbook G4? Do you specifically need a floppy disk, or is there another solution possible, like Floppy Emu, SCSI2SD, Ethernet, LocalTalk, etc?
I think it's your particular drive that's not cooperating. Reading the reviews on Amazon, I came across a couple where buyers got drives that worked on Windows, but not on Mac OS. One reviewer mentioned that it would work in Windows 10, but not in Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.9. Based on more reviews, it sounds like there are a number of drive mechanisms and at least two different USB/floppy controllers being sold as the same Sabrent USB floppy drive item, which might explain why some users don't have trouble on Mac OS X, but others cannot get it to work. My generic USB floppy drive has a Teac controller and NEC mechanism. It works perfectly well on everything I've tried.
This includes Windows 2000 through 10 and Mac OS 9.1, OS X 10.3 to 10.12. Update: After weeks or trying, I was able to get 7.6 to install with errors. But it did install and I could boot to my SCSI2CF card. After that happened, I booted to my CF card. I installed the CD of Lido. I moved Lido to my CF card.
I inserted a floppy disk and formatted it under 7.6 in my Color Classic. Then I moved Lido over to my floppy. After that I was home free. I booted to my apple 7.6 CD, then inserted the floppy of Lido, formatted my CF card into 4 partitions. Now the install went perfect. I still wish I had floppy drive support from some machine so I can make floppy disks that would work.
Thanks again for all your help rsolberg. Mercado Libre is the ebay of Ecuador. Ecuador has private shipping companies that ship in country only. They are very good, very inexpensive, and fast. I would say the cost to ship a huge heavy box all the way across Ecuador, cost maybe 1/4 of that UPS would charge you in the USA. I shipped a box a 2 PM and it arrives in the southern most part of Ecuador before noon the next day (I live in the northern part of Ecuador). I used Mercado Libre to buy the powered USB hub (I had some issues with the seller, a long delay and the electrical plug for the wall turned out to be from Chile), but it all worked out in the end).
Actually, about three or four 'ebay' type forums work here inside of Ecuador. You use them to look for apartments, buy a used refrigerators computer stuff, etc.
I have looked at www.expat.com a few times. A buddy belongs.
It is more of a social network. And the volume of stuff for sale is.HUGE. on Mercado Libre compared to expat.com. I may join one day., They have a free membership and also a paid membership. Almost all the Mac stuff for sale (in Mercado Libre type sites) is very new. I have never seen any 68K Mac stuff for sale. I did find my powerbook for sale on Mercado Libre.
It was $700.00. They can be bought for between $100 and $200 in the US. Mercado Libre will be my first choice when I look for mac compatible USB floppy drives. Maybe I will get lucky.
Iomega Usb Floppy Drive Drivers
A short and to the point guide: Iomega officially only supports Windows XP (32 bit) for this drive (Citizen X1-DE-USB), but with this procedure I got it to work both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista. I'm not sure about other versions of Windows; the standard 32 bit version of XP professional doesn't work with this method (it doesn't offer a fitting substitute driver, so the original Iomega driver is still needed). I found out how to do this by looking at the.inf file that comes with the XP driver. It just tells Windows which operating systems are supported and to use the usbstor.sys driver.
Nec Floppy Usb Driver For Mac Mac
After unsuccessfully trying to get other Windows versions to accept the inf file, I instead tried to find another, similar, device that's supported by Windows out of the box and uses the driver. This worked; we're going to install the drive as a NEC USB floppy drive.