11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
9:03 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10/11/2005 at 9:24 AM Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
But a DECstation 2100/3100 comes with a floppy drive hooked to a board
with a 34-pin floppy header, and then the SCSI bus from the motherboard
plugs into the translator board. Could something like this be used?
Peace... Sridhar
How about SCSI floppy drives?
The problem with SCSI floppies is essentially the same--addressing is on a sector number
basis, not CHS. So the drives have limited format recognition capabilities. I've
never seen a 5.25' SCSI floppy, though at one time SMS marketed a SCSI-to-FDC
conversion board. But that was many years ago in the early days of SCSI, so it probably
wouldn't work on a modern SCSI adapter. Perhaps the SCSI firmware in a stock Teac
FD-235S could be tweaked, but the drives are pretty hard to come by.