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Thanks so much LaPorta.....  Beer is on me next time you are in Oregon! :-) mraroid

So are you saying that if I used a Sony branded floppy drive, it might work?  I would need to find a Sony floppy drive that could take the ribbon cable plug that is hanging off the optical drive. mraroid

I really need to learn Mac technical terms that apply after about 1993.  I am having a hard time keeping up here.... So Bolle and Gorgonops... Are you saying this drive will not work at all...

I found this on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Imation-SuperDisk-Drive-LS-120-120MB-LS120-IDE-LKM-F733-1/302595654953?epid=21012723378&hash=item46741b4529:g:lywAAOSw8i9aVB5i:sc:USPSPriority!97301!US!-1:rk:51:pf:0 Would this work?  I also found one in a housing...

Hello Gorgonops  & Cory.... My first thought was to install a internal Apple branded 1.44 floppy drive in that slot under the optical drive.  I see a ribbon cable and power connector swinging the breeze.  I believe the size of the ribbon cable and the size of power cable may need an adapter...

Point well taken nglevin...   I saw a video on You Tube where a fellow paid a ton of money to buy a 1Ghz processor for his B&W.  I thought it was madness.  But having said that, I do like to see what speed I can squeeze out of my older hardware and software.  I enjoy reducing the temperature...

Can you suggest one Bolle? mraroid

I looked at that card myself Trash.  I sure wish I could buy a card to give me ATA support.  Is RAID an issue when people flash cards? I see that shipping is free.  $15.00 is not a huge gamble if it fails.  Because of the chip set, it may be possible to flash this card? mraroid

I did note that on the ebay post, it said it would not work with OS9.  Perhaps the person on MacRumors that bought a card that had been flashed to give him OS9 support... ???

Well, I have a internal floppy drive in my Color Classic.  I guess it is asking too much to take a internal drive like it, plug in the ribbon cable and a power and have it work?  :-( I did not know what a Imation SuperDisk drive was until I googled it. They are quite inexpensive on ebay.  I...

Folks....   I was going to post this in the trading area on this forum.  But I thought it might apply to users here. I hope I have not broken any rules....   This is a PCI SATA card made for Macs, that is suppose to have the ability to not only boot you into OS9 but also early flavors of OSX.   ...

Hi...   My B&W came with a CD drive and a empty bay below it where a Zip drive is often installed.  Has anyone installed a internal floppy drive in the space below the optical drive?   Yes, I know I can plug in a external USB floppy drive.  But I am interested in learning if anyone has...

USB 2.0 support in OSX only? I have not seen a card that would give me USB 2.0 speeds under 9.2.2.  I am looking, but I do not think I will find one..... mraroid

No worries my friend.  You have taken great pains to explaine in detail things that my small brain was unable to wrap my head around.  I am much obliged.  You and I both like to run benchmark software.  I will post my results as soon as I can. mraroid

So true Trash.  I think the B&W will run 9.2.2 just fine.  And at some point, the B&W willl get a Yikes! motherboard update with a 500Mhz CPU (Less then $20 from Hong Kong). And as a added bonus, I can install a flavor of OSX and learn about that. Will the fun ever stop??!!  I am a happy...

And I appreciate that about you.   It is true that the main reason I bought this old broken down B&W was to buy a faster machine than my Mystic, so I could down load files for my Mystic.   But I have also stated many times, and it seems to have been ignored, that I am playing with this...

OK.  I missed the cards from Israel.  Because they have the sil3112 chip, is it theoretically possible to flash them so that one could boot to OS 0 as well as OSX? mraroid

Got it.  Thank you. Moving around, opening and closing apps in windows seemed snuggest to me with OS9.  If I moved to a PCI IDE controller card,  it will not improve the speed of OS9? The same for OSX.  Would moving OSX to a IDE controller card make OSX more snappy?  It looks like cards are no...

Thanks!

Am I understanding correctly that this chipset would allow one to boot to OS9 as well as OSX as the Sonnet card can?  I used the original 5GB mechanical hard drive for a day or two after I cleaned up the B&W.  I had enough parts laying around the house to roll in a solid state drive. ...