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Steffen Breitbach
Would appreciate some feedback.
So, you already have 2 Floppy drives in your PC?
Bis denn...
Steffen
So, you already have 2 Floppy drives in your PC?
Bis denn...
Steffen
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Will Dormann
Jim said:
I doubt it. Why do you need IDE, though? Do you already have 2
floppy devices?
-WD
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CJT
I've never seen one, although SCSI floppy drives exist, so I can't ruleJim said:
it out.
I think there are also USB floppy drives, if that helps.
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Jim Basinger
I am looking for a 5.25" floppy drive that will work as an IDE component.
Does such a thing exist? I really don't want to mess with installing a
separate floppy controller card if I can avoid it.
I've tried to do some searches to find a 5.25 IDE floppy model, with no
success. I wonder if any of the dual drive models are IDE?
Would appreciate some feedback.
Thanks
Jim
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Does such a thing exist? I really don't want to mess with installing a
separate floppy controller card if I can avoid it.
I've tried to do some searches to find a 5.25 IDE floppy model, with no
success. I wonder if any of the dual drive models are IDE?
Would appreciate some feedback.
Thanks
Jim
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Jim Basinger
Haven't been able to find a USB in 5.25" though. That would certainly do
the trick if I could.
Jim
the trick if I could.
Jim
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idunno
Jim Basinger said:
A 5.25 Floppy drive is a long-obsolete device which uses large 5.25"
floppy media of a smaller capacity (1.2M or less). I assume you have
some old disks you need to read? Otherwise it would be of little use.
You will not find an IDE or USB based 5.25 floppy. 5.25 floppies are
hard to find. If a retailer has them they are expensive. You may
have luck finding a used or system pull. Just be sure you have a
floppy ribbon that has the old-style floppy connector.
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Robert B. Clark
To my knowledge, there are no ATA 5.25" (or 3.5", for that matter) FDDs.
However, there are USB 3.5" FDDs, so I suppose anything goes.
Your existing FDD controller can handle two devices. Simply connect the
drive to the floppy interface cable between the twist and the FDD
controller:
MB FDD controller -----FDD B ----X----FDD A
The "X" denotes the twist in the cable. Your original FDD is likely
attached as "FDD A"; your 5.25: drive will be installed at "FDD B"
See above regarding IDE floppy drives. However, a quick search did turn up
some dual 3.5/5.25 FDDs, albeit quite expensive. Here's one vendor:
http://www.computerpartsgalore.com/drives-floppy.htm
You might also want to try eBay or a local computer fair.
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Rod Speed
The LS120 etc do 3.5"
However, there are USB 3.5" FDDs, so I suppose anything goes.
Not always.
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bill
To my knowledge, there are no ATA 5.25" (or 3.5", for that matter) FDDs.
However, there are USB 3.5" FDDs, so I suppose anything goes.
Sure there are:
http://www.icccomputers.com/teac144idefl.html
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CJT
I think that's bogus. Why, under system requirements, do they list
floppy drive controller and cable?
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bill
That, I couldn't say.
I also don't know why a Toshiba laptop, when restoring the hard drive,
will say it's loading WIN95, when it's loading XP.
Some things are just strange! :-/
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Barry OGrady
To my knowledge, there are no ATA 5.25" (or 3.5", for that matter) FDDs.
However, there are USB 3.5" FDDs, so I suppose anything goes.
I have an external 5.25" floppy drive that plugs into a printer port.
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Rod Speed
Bet it doesnt. Bet it plugs into a multipurpose
port on a laptop that has that type of connector.
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Barry OGrady
You'd lose.
It has a picture of a printer next to the connector, and inside thereis an interface circuit board and a standard floppy drive.
I also have an external SCSI hard drive that connects through an interface board
to a standard printer port. It uses a .sys file that loads from config.sys.
To round things out I have a scanner that connects to a standard printer port.
All three devices have a pass through to allow a printer to share the same port.
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Rod Speed
You'd lose.
We'll see.
Some of those for laptops did, just to indicate that it
was supposed to plug into the multipurpose connector.
Would be a hell of a lot more surprising if it didnt.
Yes, that wasnt at all uncommon with those, and cd
burners too. Not common at all with floppy drives tho.
Doesnt prove that that floppy drive will work fine on a standard printer port.
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Barry OGrady
Is that a special interface that does printers as well?
I have an Acer 350 notebook which has an internal floppy drive.
The floppy drive can be removed and connected to the printer port
via a cable.
I also have an TI notebook which came with an external floppy drive that
also plugs into the printer port.
Are those printer ports specially made for the purpose?
While not common it surely is possible? The printer port is quite slow so it would
seem more appropriate for slow devices like floppy drives.
True. I don't know in the case of the units I have because I have never used them.
I picked them up at an auction along with some other stuff.
There is something you might be able to help with. I have a TI Extensa 900 notebook
that came with an external floppy drive that plugs into the printer port. I can't get the
floppy drive to work. The manual just says to plug it in and use it.
The floppy drive seems completely dead. Do you have any ideas on how I can get it to
work?
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Rod Speed
Yeah, it can be with a laptop.
Yeah, thats not that unusual with laptops and notebooks
which only have one physical bay, so you can have both the
floppy drive and the cdrom drive in use at the same time.
Yes, its certainly technically feasible. After all, laplink can
use a printer port as a decent bandwidth comms channel.
Yeah, just like it was used for scsi devices and scanners too.
All one hell of a kludge but there was lots of that with those.
Yeah, lots of relatively obscure stuff like that shows up at those.
Yeah, that was the usual thing, the laptop/
notebook detected its presence at boot time.
And thats always a real possibility with that stuff, you've got a dead one.
You'd have to check if its dead first, by using it in place of one
that does work. Its may be worth checking the basics like one
of the internal connections to the physical drive hasnt come off
etc or replacing the physical drive with another inside its housing.
You can get some pretty obscure jumpering of floppy drives
for specific uses tho with many modern drives not bothering
to have the jumpers anymore. Sometimes they only have
solder bridge or trace cut jumpering if they have anything.
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Robert B. Clark
Yes, but we were talking about 5.25" floppy disk devices here, not LS120s.
While almost anything is possible, I must say that in twenty years I've not
seen a x86 FDD controller that could not support two floppy drives, with
the appropriate cable.
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Robert B. Clark
Take another look at the text of the advertisement rather than the URL.
Most IDE devices do not use floppy disk drive interface cables, controllers
or connectors.
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Rod Speed
I was clearly commenting on your '(or 3.5", for that matter)'
It isnt even that uncommon lately.
Have a look at some of the current Intel motherboards.
Like two serial ports, we are now starting to see support
for the second one dropped in the latest chipsets.