8 Apr
2006
8 Apr
'06
7:04 p.m.
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Don Y wrote:
I don't know of ANY USB nor SCSI 3.5" drives that DO use a
"conventional"
floppy within.
The common USB drives do NOT convert USB to anything even
vaguely resembling SA400.
The original requestor asked about an external USB or SCSI 5.25".
That MIGHT mean that he wants to hang the external drive on something
not completely PC compatible (such as a Mac, or a Dell laptop)
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.
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...
Let's solve the hardware problem first, THEN worry about the firmware.
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") 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)
I've had SCSI <-> ST506/412.
Do you know a source for a SCSI <-> SA400/800 ?