10 Dec
2003
10 Dec
'03
3:18 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Dan Wright wrote:
Those USB floppy drives generally use a "SCSI
protocol over USB transport"
scheme (this is in fact the way the USB mass-storage standard works AFAIK, so
floppy drives aren't the only things that do this), so I would be VERY
suprised if there's any "standard" floppy drive in there that you could
just
swap out for a different type.
Actually, I would imagine it's very likely that there's a standard disk
drive in there since it would be much easier (and cheaper) to design a
simple and cheap floppy interface-to-SCSI converter. But that doesn't
necessarily mean that any drive can be run on the converter.
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