Yes, I went there. Why? Because I have a lot of old discs that are nostalgic to me. I still have old machines that can read them, but it would be nice if Ventura did, too.
Does anyone know if Ventura can do this? Are there any incompatibilities I should know about? I also have 4 external HDs, three by G-drive, and one by OWC. Three are USB, one is TB3.
Thanks folks.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.6
If they are 400K or 800K floppies, there are no USB floppy drives you can buy that will read them. (Apple used a special "Integrated Woz Machine" controller, found only in old Apple Macs and Apple floppy drives, to store 400K and 800K where the corresponding PC drives would have stored 360K and 720K.)
If they are 1.44 MB floppies, a USB floppy drive will be physically able to read them but you may encounter the HFS fileysystem support issue. It might be time to back up the contents of those floppies onto hard drives, with the aid of the old Macs, while you can.
Well, these are my backup drives. I have one 12TB drive for TMBs, two 4TB drives for first back-ups, and one 'overflow' drive of 2TB. Not sure I can reformat any of them at this point.
TM backups will be HFS+ or APFS
Everyone... thank you. All of this is good to know.
'Preciate it. I almost always get the info I need from you guys.
I need to read up on HD file formats.
Seriously... that's amazing.
Floppy drives and Ventura
