USB 5.25" floppy drive

From: Barry Watzman <Watzman_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jun 10 13:45:59 2004

Ok, now you have to promise not to laugh too hard.

 

Does anyone know if it's possible to make a USB Floppy Disk Drive.

 

Oh, ...... I mean a 320k/360k 5.25" USB floppy disk drive.

 

[hey, you promised .....]

 

I occasionally need to transfer things between my PC and an old S-100
system, or a Z-100. The Z-100 has 5.25" disks, but not 3.5".

 

So .....

 

I actually wondered if one could buy a USB 3.5" floppy and use the
"controller card" with a 5.25" drive, since the interface is nominally the
same. However, these mostly use notebook drives, and while they may have
the same electrical interface, the physical interface is a flex cable.
Worse, some of the USB 3.5" drives may "integrate" the USB controller and
drive mechanism so that there is no standard floppy interface at all.

 

There may also be software issues.

 

Anyway, it seems like a question to post to this group, and in a few other
places.

 

[Next I will want a USB 8" drive ..... which, actually, with the right
software, would not be a bad idea !!]
Received on Thu Jun 10 2004 - 13:45:59 BST