USB 5.25 floppy

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Dec 10 23:18:17 2003

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Dan Wright wrote:

> Those USB floppy drives generally use a "SCSI protocol over USB transport"
> scheme (this is in fact the way the USB mass-storage standard works AFAIK, so
> floppy drives aren't the only things that do this), so I would be VERY
> suprised if there's any "standard" floppy drive in there that you could just
> swap out for a different type.

Actually, I would imagine it's very likely that there's a standard disk
drive in there since it would be much easier (and cheaper) to design a
simple and cheap floppy interface-to-SCSI converter. But that doesn't
necessarily mean that any drive can be run on the converter.

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