Surely this
depends on what the 5?" drive's interface is? I'm sure
I've seen ads for interface boxes for IDE, and probably SCSI, that
would require at most a transplant of the adapter into a 5?" case,
if the drive you want to use has the matching interface.
Have you seen a
5.25" (or 8") floppy drive lately with an IDE or SCSI
interface?
In retrospect, this was me being careless about sizes. I was confusing
3?"-vs-5?" (floppy size) with 4"-vs-5?" (drive mounting widths). I
did
look for an indication of what kind of drive it was (floppy, fixed
disk, CD, etc) but, because I'd (mis)read the 5?" as indicating drive
width, failed to notice that that size alone pegged it as a floppy.
Mea culpa.
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