8 Apr
2006
8 Apr
'06
5:13 p.m.
On 4/8/2006 at 6:00 PM Michael B. Brutman wrote:
Those look like they are designed for IDE type devices,
not 5.25" floppy
drives. I assumed that the OP wanted 5.25 drives on USB.
That's what I gathered.
Another possibility is a Microsolutions Backpack parallel port floppy. I
can just about guarantee that it requires a legacy parallel port at the
very minimum; from what I know of the drive (which is qutie a bit), a
USB-to-parallel port adapter won't work.
When I originally spoke with the folks at Microsolutions, they were
unwilling to release any programming information about the drive. I wsa
forced to reverse-engineer their drivers to get support for things like
CP/M single-density diskettes, etc. Basically, their box is an NS 8477 FDC
with a microcontroller and about 8K of RAM. You can get a 3.5" backpack
floppy and use it (with cable adapter) on a 5.25" drive--I believe I even
noticed that they bring the selects out for two drives, so you could even
use it with a combo drive.
I've got an older Rancho Technology Floppy-to-parallel board. I don't have
programming information for it, but that might be another possibility.
Cheers,
Chuck