Hi, everyone. I have a small trove of 800k floppy discs with archival material from the late 1980s that I'd love to get access to. I've borrowed a USB LaCie Floppy Disc reader (
http://goo.gl/OI5Zv), and connected to my Dual-Core Intel Xeon (OSX 10.6.5) it seems to read HD floppies just fine (1.4mb), but not the old 800k's. I hear the drive starting to access the disks and then it just stops. After insertion, the disks don't show up in Disc Utility, by the way.
So is there some software I'm missing? Is this is a compatibility issue between, for example, ancient HFS and how it's done today? Is it a USB issue? Any patch or workaround to get access to these files?
Any help would be appreciated!