Can Macs recognize Floopy Disks (Diskettes)?

[ScratchTehEPICSpaceDude]

I hooked my floppy drive with a diskette in it and my Mac isn't recognizing it.

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[Coolio]

So, you hooked it up, as in you attached the Floppy Drive? Was the drive USB?

Also, what model?

[Night Fox]

floopy. lol

anyway, as long as you're using some external drive (assuming it's connected by USB), the Mac should just treat it like a flash drive

[ScratchTehEPICSpaceDude]

Usb, yeah.

Um, Modal No. FD-05PUB

[KoopaScooper]

it should be like a removable drive

[Beachbum]

Strange. If the disk reader came with software, install it. In theory, it should read it like a jump-drive, but it might need some extra program.

[Comatose]

Maybe there's something wrong with the floppy disk itself?

[Port]

Why did I read the thread title as “Floopy richards“ initially?

Anyway, this:

it should be like a removable drive

[Alyx Vance]

Holy stuff I ain't the only one who uses Floppy Disk still? That's amazing.

[Night Fox]

that reminds me, why exactly are you using a floppy disk?

[Beachbum]

that reminds me, why exactly are you using a floppy disk?

Most reliable source of storage imo. If they made like 500gig floppy disks, I'd use that over a CD/External HDD any day.

[Alyx Vance]

Most reliable source of storage imo. If they made like 500gig floppy disks, I'd use that over a CD/External HDD any day.

I agree. A floppy disk won't be destroyed as easy as a disk, a disk can get broke in half easy while a floppy is like "bitch please you can't destroy me!"
They are also smaller.

[Beachbum]

I agree. A floppy disk won't be destroyed as easy as a disk, a disk can get broke in half easy while a floppy is like "bitch please you can't destroy me!"
They are also smaller.

Yep. I completely agree.

[Night Fox]

Most reliable source of storage imo. If they made like 500gig floppy disks, I'd use that over a CD/External HDD any day.

I doubt that will happen, considering that even four-layer Blu-Ray discs can only hold 128GB, and they're a lot more advanced than floppy disks
solid-state drives are better

[Fluff-is-back]

I doubt that will happen, considering that even four-layer Blu-Ray discs can only hold 128GB, and they're a lot more advanced than floppy disks
solid-state drives are better

But you see, magnetic tape drives, such as floppy disks, last for 10s of years, whereas, most optical disks (blu-ray, dvd, cds) only last on average for around 8 years.