Floppy drive question

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Richard Dower

Under Windows XP Professional i always see floppy drives show in Device
Manager as "floppy disk drive". But do any floppy drives have proper
hardware ID?

Meaning a Sony floppy drive is displayed as "Sony floppy disk drive"?

What, if any, floppy drives have built-in hardware ID?
 
Under Windows XP Professional i always see floppy drives show in Device
Manager as "floppy disk drive". But do any floppy drives have proper
hardware ID?
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All the OS can see, is the controller really.
Meaning a Sony floppy drive is displayed as "Sony floppy disk drive"?

What, if any, floppy drives have built-in hardware ID?
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None. Floppy drives are dumb devices.

Well, USB drives might, but they would ID the controller, not the
drive itself.
 
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