Help with flash drive

[hfrankish]

Hi

I recently bought a Cruzer Micro 1GB flash drive. It won't work on my boyfriend's old Mac (OS 8.5). I just looked at the technical specifications, and it says it's only compatible with Mac OS 9.1.x+ and 10.1.2+. I called SanDisk, who couldn't help at all.

Does anyone know if there's any way I can get it to work on my Mac?

Cheers
Helen

 

[eric2006]

Depending on the model of the mac, you could just upgrade to OS 9.2. It's only 10 bucks, and it should solve your problem.

 

[hfrankish]

It's an old G2 apparently. I know absolutely nothing about Macs. Will that be compatible with OS 9.2?

 

[eric2006]

According to Wikipedia, anything below OS 9.2 will work. OS 9.1 should work.

 

[macosxuser]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass_storage_device_class MacOS 8.5.1 supports mass storage usb devices like flash drives.

If you are running MacOS 8.5 upgrade to MacOS 8.5.1 at

http://www.download.com/Apple-Mac-OS-Update-8-5-1/3000-2283_4-900946.html

And if it still doesn't work you might have to update to MacOS 8.6


http://download.info.apple.com/Appl...m/Mac_OS_8.6_Update/Mac_OS_8.6_Update.smi.bin

 

[macosxuser]

Seems like MacOS 8.6 and the USB Mass Storage Support Version 1.3.5 are needed for things like flash drives.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60394

http://www.maccpu.com/macusb.html

 

[hfrankish]

I got it wrong -- he's already running 8.6. Don't think there's enough room/memory to upgrade to 9.0.