USB 5.25 floppy

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Dec 10 12:26:45 2003

> > Question for gurus: Someone knows (or adapted it for
> > yourself) of one 5.25 floppy drive connected with some kind
> > of USB cable or controller ? I want to do image disks of almost
> > 2000 diskettes I have, and I should like to use my laptop to do it.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> I'm sure one can be built, but I've seen drives like these before (but for
> the Macintosh).

There are PC laptops with no floppy, that use external USB floppies.
Q: do those have, inside them, an "industry standard" (SA400) drive?
If so, then cabling to a 1.2M or 360K drive should be trivial.

HOWEVER, it seems unlikely that it will support the 300K data transfer
rate, so reading 360K disks in a 1.2M drive will require switching drives
to a 360K, or some kludges on a "dual speed" drive.
Received on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 12:26:45 GMT