2 Jan
2011
2 Jan
'11
11:22 p.m.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Charlie Carothers wrote:
On 12/31/2010 5:12 AM, David Griffith wrote:
I was looking at this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274 which
doesn't appear to have a floppy port.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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I'm looking at my aging desktop machine and realize that its replacement
probably won't have a native floppy interface, so I started thinking
about the super-powered USB-floppy interface previously discussed here.
I forgot what it was called, so I stumbled across this page:
http://www.deviceside.com/. I quickly figured out what I wanted was the
Discferret. Does anyone know anything about this anemic alternative?
This led me to some more questions:
1) Can the Discferret handle flippies?
2) Can I daisychain two drives to a single Discferret?
3) How much more work would it be to make a Discferret talk to an 8-inch
drive?
I'd buy one or two now, but finances aren't that great right now.
I've no idea which motherboard you are thinking of getting, but I just looked
and it appears that several of the Gigabyte ones on NewEgg have a connector
labeled FDD. I'm thinking that's for a Floppy Disk Drive, though it seems
one is not mentioned in the list of storage devices. BTW, I've no affiliation
with either Gigabyte or NewEgg; I'm just a very satisfied customer of both.
If you're thinking of an already assembled PC replacement then I'm sure
you're right that there won't be a floppy drive included, and for cost
reasons there probably won't be a port/connector either.