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IMATION SUPERDISK DRIVE EXTERNAL PARALLEL PORT 120MB FOR PC INSTALL
IMATION SUPERDISK DRIVE EXTERNAL PARALLEL PORT 120MB FOR PC PLUS

The ribbon cable connector on the back of it is not like the ribbon cable feeding that empty slot under the optical drive. I have a Apple 1.44 drive that came out of a Color Clasic or a LC 575. I never did think about the master and slave option - thank you for that tip.

I believe the size of the ribbon cable and the size of power cable may need an adapter so they can plug in correctly. I see a ribbon cable and power connector swinging the breeze.

IMATION SUPERDISK DRIVE EXTERNAL PARALLEL PORT 120MB FOR PC INSTALL

My first thought was to install a internal Apple branded 1.44 floppy drive in that slot under the optical drive.

IMATION SUPERDISK DRIVE EXTERNAL PARALLEL PORT 120MB FOR PC PLUS

(*Actually, some USB drives don't work in 720k mode, 1.44 HD only.) So you still won't be able to use your B&W to make disks for truly ancient macs (IE, Mac Plus and such) or otherwise read/write 800k images. Just remember that no matter what you pick it'll only work with standard 1.44/720k format floppies*. (Set it to "slave" and your CD-ROM/DVD drive to "master".) You could of course also use the USB version of the SuperDisk, although if you rip the case off of one of those you'll find it's just an IDE unit with a bridge board stuck on it so you might as well just put it on your IDE chain.

(My B&W has a stock Zip drive in it that I've never actually used, ever.) The advantage this drive would have over most USB floppy drives is it has a powered eject motor, so you can drag disks to trash to eject them both logically and physically in the standard Mac fashion. Cory has mentioned the Imation SuperDisk it should work fine to hang an internal one of those off the secondary IDE channel (IE, the 16mb/s port that's normally used for the CD-ROM drive), that's where the IDE Zip drive was on the models so equipped. There is no "classic" Mac floppy port on the B&W's motherboard, so USB and IDE are your only options.