2.88 MB floppy drive, scsi?

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Wed Oct 10 09:47:13 2001

Mike Ford skrev:

>I've been looking for some 2.88 non-IBM PS/2 floppy drives, and I found
>some, but the guy says they are SCSI. Is that nuts or what?

>TEAC FD-235 J 5670-U W/SCSI Card
>TEAC FD-235 J 5670-U W/SCSI Card
>TEAC FD-235 J 610 W/SCSI Card

>Some of the HP/Apollo 725/50 computers I found recently had SCSI floppies,
>but it looked like the SCSI part might be detachable. I wonder if I should
>bother getting the above drives to work in a PC, which I would have to fuss
>around adding SCSI to?

It's quite possible to adapt PS/2 floppies to the common PC interface. A
friend of mine converted them for Amiga use, and the difference between the
Amiga and PC interfaces are negligible.

Since PS/2 floppies are a lot more common than SCSI ones, I'd say you'd
better slaughter some PS/2s.

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