]Host OS : Mac OS10 Guest OS: Windows Xp Pro Here is what I have done. I checked to make sure nothing in host OS was accessing my A Drive. (I am using a USB connector with an external 3 1/2 inch floppy reader.) Then on the Paralells menu bar, I clicked: Devices, Floppy : Connect (this I assume releases control from my host OS and gives the drive over to my Guest OS.) I can now access my A drive under My Computer, but no matter what floppy disk I put in the external drive I see the following folder: RTL8029. Can anyone help? I am missing something simple , but I am almost there... Thanks in advance David:
Have you tried Opening or Exploring that folder, using any Windows tools? I haven't attempted to connect a floppy drive so have no direct experience with this but I would lso suggest that you try connecting a flash drive so that you can troubleshoot for yourself the process of actually accessing AN external device via USB. There are a number of good posts here about making that process work. It might give you a running start for working with a floppy. Also use the Search function on the forum to see other notes about "Floppy". You might find exactly what you need.
By default, the floppy drive in Parallels is connected to an image containing some of the Parallels Tools. (RTL8029, for example, is the Ethernet driver.) You need to edit your VM to switch the floppy to something else. However, Parallels on the Mac doesn't support USB floppy drives; the emulated floppy drive can only be connected to images.
You could dd the floppy to an image file and then configure Parallels to use that image to read/write to it.
