I find this somewhat interesting on OS support of old storage devices since Zip/Jaz still work on El Capitan, for laughs during the Windows 8 public beta I had installed a 5.25 floppy drive and sure enough it pulled drivers & worked but you were stuck at 1.2MB under the format menu(had to use the command prompt to properly erase some old 360kb & 500kb floppies after they were zeroed).Īs far as old USB 1.0/1.1 devices, an ancient first gen compact Cannon scanner(646) works via VueScan and an Iomega ZipCD 650 works with iTunes CD burning. I wouldn’t recommend using early VST drives just for that reason, my old Entegra 4-port USB hub blew a port due to that VST floppy drive back in the late 90s which left me settling on a SuperDisk.Īpple has been trying to ditch floppy support for awhile now, Snow Leopard was the last to support HFS(pre-OS 8.1) and Mavericks made it impossible to use an Imation SuperDisk LS120 but it would work via VirtualBox. If the floppy maker was VST they used a very unreliable bridge on the revision A/v1.0(Bondi) & A2/v1.1(Blueberry) was prone to overloading the USB bus, revision B/2.0(translucent) switched to a lower power chipset to make it more portable friendly(iBook G3 & PowerBook G3/G4) and possible common chipset found in most generic USB floppy drives today. VueScan Scanner Software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Posted on 4:54 PM Reply Me too (1) Me too. The other observation I’ve made is that once a USB 1 device like the floppy is connected, and removed, then the USB bus appears to crash as all other USB devices subsequently connected are not mounted either, - fixed by a machine restart though.Īny knowledge available from the community on this issue ? How to make sure vuescan is uninstalled from my OS X El Capitan. I have tried connecting the devices directly and through a USB hub, but no joy. I did read somewhere that similar drives will work under a Parallels Windows VM on an El Capitan host OS, - so will try this too and report back. So, keep a Yosemite OS on an external disk for when I need to do this, is one fix. There are plenty of similar complaints on the web but no solutions with El Cap. ![]() Given the machine architecture is the same except for a processor upgrade to mine, then the OS must be the culprit. The 2 machines are both March 2015 13 inch MBP’s, hers a 2.9 i5 running Yosemite, and mine a 3.1 i7 running El Capitan. (yes the options to show connected devices on the desktop in Finder preferences are checked) Both drives get power and are visible in system profiler, oops I mean system Information, (showing my age again) but do not spin up nor obviously do not appear on the desktop. Both the floppy and the Zip work fine on my wife’s laptop, but not on mine. The fact is El Capitan is certainly the culprit. I am cleaning up years of accumulated “stuff” and wanted to see what was stored on some unlabelled disks. I recently discovered my old USB Sony 3.5 inch floppy and a Zip 100 USB drive no longer work on the El Capitan OS.
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