imac g4 installing a floppy drive

[Macintoshguy1984]

I was wondering if it was possible to install a internal floppy drive in a imac g4 running 10.2 and 9.1_i think)

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Where would you even put it? 

And no, there's no controller on the board. You'd need to use a USB external. 

 

[Macintoshguy1984]

Is there a pci card i could get??

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

There's no PCI slot. 

Nor is there a lot of room period. The hard drive sits on top of the optical drive, and the fan sits on top of that. 

 

[Macintoshguy1984]

Oh, sorry I ment the power mac g4 ( my mistake)

 

[Bunsen]

Then yes, room-wise, but still only a USB one.  There's no circuitry for a native Mac floppy on any desktop machine after the Beige G3.

 

[Macintoshguy1984]

ok, thanks

 

[Unknown_K]

What about LS-120 IDE drives in place of the ZIP drive?

 

[Anonymous Freak]

That would work fine, although LS-120 drives don't support 400k/800k Macintosh floppies, only 1.4M.

 

[waynestewart]

There are SCSI floppy drives you could use. Again you couldn't use 400/800k disks