>On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, SP wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>I'm sure one can be built, but I've seen drives like these before (but for
>the Macintosh).
I've got one of the original VST USB 3.5" floppies. I've used it on my
PowerMac G4/450 AGP (Mac OS 8.6/9.x/X), and on my wife's IBM Thinkpad running WinME (ick). It's apparently doesn't require any drivers under WinME, and I just checked it on my new Mac, so it apparently doesn't need special drivers under Mac OS X 10.3 either.
My concern would be that OS's are expecting such a device to be a 3.5" HD floppy, or one of those 120MB 3.5" floppy things (can't remember their name). You could conceivably have to try and write your own drivers.
Zane
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