Well, I extracted the .Sony and .MFMFloppy drivers out of the Mac OS ROM file version 1.1.5. I'm pretty sure they're complete anyway...can't 100% guarantee it because I don't totally know how to parse the ROM resource list. Anyway, interestingly enough they appear to be written with 68k code rather than PowerPC.
I guess at some point we could try to figure out how to load drivers and see if loading them would re-enable the floppy drive in a newer OS version. Could probably be done from an extension or something rather than patching the Mac OS ROM file. It could also fail miserably though
If you're ever interested in trying it, let me know and I can try to figure out how to manually load the drivers from an extension.
I guess at some point we could try to figure out how to load drivers and see if loading them would re-enable the floppy drive in a newer OS version. Could probably be done from an extension or something rather than patching the Mac OS ROM file. It could also fail miserably though
If you're ever interested in trying it, let me know and I can try to figure out how to manually load the drivers from an extension.