USB 5.25" floppy drive - do it

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu Jun 10 16:02:34 2004

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 20:49, Gene Ehrich wrote:
> At 02:45 PM 6/10/2004, you wrote:
> >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.
>
> I have been asking that question for a long time. I would love to
> have the USB Connected 5-1/4" drive that would really work
> and be able to read both high and low density disks from the past.
>
> I would be willing to pay $150 for it.

One thing I'd like is an inexpensive PC device to talk to a floppy drive
directly and then be able to do all the necessary processing in
software.

Not sure if such as a PC parallel port is fast enough to cope with the
data rate of a floppy drive and leave enough time for the CPU to do the
processing though... but that'd be nice; little more than a cable and a
bit of glue logic hooked up to a parallel port that could be quickly
swapped between machines.

cheers

Jules
Received on Thu Jun 10 2004 - 16:02:34 BST