USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID Under OS X (2004)

USB FLOPPY DISK STRIPED RAID UNDER OS X WHAT: The USB FDD raid was constructed using the following (1) One Bondi Blue iMAC 500 MhZ ( It was upgraded with a SONNET Harmoni G3 ) running OS X 10.2.4 (2) Five standard Y-E DATA 1X USB Floppy Disk Drives here they are..... (3) 5 random floppies laying around (4) Generic USB 4 port hub WHY: Why not? I had just set up my 2 firewire drives and thought, "Can I RAID USB Floppy DRIVES"? I happen to work for Y-E DATA which is one of the worlds largest manufacturers of USB Floppy Drives, so I have access to these things. I had just been going through a pile of returns testing the drives for failure. There are always a few that are fine though, so I got 5 of them for this very important scientific feat. HOW When I first tried to do this I looked at my DELL running Windows XP, but unfortuately it does not allow USB FDD RAIDs. HOW LAME!!!! So, I turned to my new favorite OS, Apple OS X. Here is how I did this low-hi tech marvel. (1) Connected t ... Read full article.