Mounting a 3.5" Floppy

Important Notice to Owners of External USB 3.5" Drives Bernie's "no-thrill" 3.5" floppy support is only available on Macintosh systems with traditional built-in 3.5" drives. That's because Bernie special-cases 3.5" hardware. When you add an external floppy drive to your system (such as an Imation SuperDisk), this drive is treated just like a regular removable storage device and is not recognized by Bernie. Still, you can use Bernie's volume sharing mechanism for making 3.5" disks available in the Apple II environment. Although you need to explicitely share every disk that you insert, the disks are accessible the same way as with traditional 3.5" hardware once shared.

| Heck, It's Already There! If you have a Mac with a 3.5" floppy drive, you're settled. Just take the 3.5" floppy disk and insert it into your Mac's disk drive. Bernie does always reserve one drive for the built-in floppy drive. If you have a look at the "Disks" window (see Windows menu), you will notice a unit labeled "built-in SuperDrive". This unit is associated with your Mac's disk drive. Ejecting this drive will eject the floppy from the Mac. Note that the "built-in SuperDrive" can't be removed completely. It is always visible. Whether it actually hosts a 3.5" floppy disk depends whether there's a disk in the Mac drive or not. |