laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?

Chris M wrote: Yes, I recently gave up my Thinkpad for a much faster, more modern laptop and am sort-of regretting it. The extra memory and CPU speed sure is nice, but I miss all those useful ports that the Thinkpad had :-( (modern system has no serial, no parallel, no floppy, and only one card slot - oh, and one of those God-awful touchpad things, and a keyboard that's about as good as a Sinclair Spectrum) My memory of when I was thinking of hacking a drive onto this is that it's a 'proper' floppy connector just with less ground lines, but that one of the control lines is the inverse of what would normally be expected (there's a hack in the Linux kernel I think to cope with this). Can't remember what the FDC reports itself to Linux as, but I don't think it'd be hard to add a 5.25" floppy drive to the machine - IBM seem to be far more compatible with equivalent desktop systems than most laptop manufacturers do. I gave up purely because I couldn't find a source of a plug to fit that tiny floppy connector. cheers Jules