5-1/4' drive on modern PC

From: Glen Slick <glen.slick_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Dec 12 00:39:31 2004

SMSC makes a USB floppy disk controller chip. Internally it contains
a 765 floppy disk controller controlled by an 8051 microcontroller.
>From the datasheet it's not clear whether or not the hardware and
standard firmware support 5.25" floppy drives.

http://www.smsc.com/main/catalog/usb97cfdc2_01.html
http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/97cfdc2_01.pdf

Power would not have to come from the USB bus. A USB device can have
its own power supply.
Received on Sun Dec 12 2004 - 00:39:31 GMT