15 Jul
2009
15 Jul
'09
9:30 a.m.
Brian Lanning wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Chuck
Guzis<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Various manufacturers did SCSI<->floppy bridge boards; it's possible there's
something like that lurking in there. You'll need OS-specific drivers if
that's the case, though - read/write commands are probably standard SCSI (no
reason really for them to be otherwise), but board configuration and low-level
formatting will be vendor-specific.
I've not personally come across an all-in-one floppy drive that has a SCSI
rather than floppy interface, although such things existed (as Chuck mentions,
they'd often offer a larger capacity - sometimes via different media - as well
as 'standard floppy'). Again, I suspect they need OS-specific drivers to make
them do anything useful (at least on the format / config side; putting
pre-formatted media in there might auto-magically appear like a small SCSI
hard disk as far as the OS is concerned)
cheers
Jules
Take a close look at the floppy when you get a
chance. It might be
one of the Briar technology 20MB flopticals that can also do 1.44MB.
I've got one in a Tulin-branded box.
From the back it looks like a garden variety
floppy drive. I'll take
the whole thing apart when I get home from work
tonight to see what's
really in there.