8 Apr
2006
8 Apr
'06
6:51 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
If they use a conventional floppy within, the 5" and 3.5" use
nearly identical signals. Problem would be what assumptions
the firmware therein makes...
> Have you
seen a 5.25" (or 8") floppy drive lately with an IDE or SCSI
> interface?
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Don Y wrote:
Aren't SPARC floppies SCSI (though not 5 or
8")?
There are lots of USB 3.5" 1.4M drives.
There are several SCSI 3.5" drives (most Floptical (usually SCSI) drives
can do 1.4M)
But I don't know of any of those that can be easily modified to support
5.25" or 8" drives. Howzbout:
take a small PC, with either USB or SCSI, with appropriate drives, and use
the PC itself as a slave device controller.
Or, just write your media on the PC and skip the interface altogether
:> (that's how I handle 8")
I don't recall the name of it, but there was a
small PC with a SCSI port
and a 5.25" drive, using the PC as a slave device controller, that was
MARKETED as a "DRIVE" that could "let Macs read PC and CP/M
diskettes".
By THAT definition, I've seen lots of RS232 floppy drives :-)
You can *buy* a SCSI<->floppy interface if you really want to spend
a lot of money on that. It just seems like a huge waste of $$$
(though I am sure there are cases where it might be desirable/needed)