6 Jun
2009
6 Jun
'09
7:39 p.m.
Rumor has it that Brian Lanning may have mentioned these words:
Does anyone make a scsi floppy drive that I could put
in my external
enclosure? Do these even exist? What about zip/jaz/syquest drives?
The only ones I know of were used in DEC machines, it was a standard floppy
drive mounted into a "bridge board" which endowed the lowly floppy with
"Super SCSI Powers!" ;-)
They're tough to find (well, maybe not _around here_) and I do not know if
they supported booting from them; but they do exist.
In times past, I owned SCSI Zip drives, one each internal & external. Not
sure if I even still have them; but they certainly exist and might be easy
(if not cheap) to acquire thru ePay. I had kept the internal one for one of
my CoCos "just in case" I acquired a SCSI card for it, but now that I have
IDE, I'm torn whether to set it up with an available IDE zip drive I have,
setup an IDE Castlewood Orb for that purpose, or inform my wife that I
"Really Need[TM]" an upgrade for a my Nikon D70, so I could use my 1G
compact flash cards currently allocated to that task for the CoCo.
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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