need IDE 5.25 floppy

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Jim Basinger said:
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?
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What's wrong with the floppy drive connector on your motherboard?


Fix you clock, it's 8 hours in the future.
 
Jim said:
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.
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The standard floppy controller on the motherboard will work with a 5.25"
floppy. Just put it on the "non-twisted" part of the connecting cable and
set the BIOS correctly.

The 5 1/4" drives are hard to find and getting more expensive, but almost
all modern BIOSs can be set to work with them. The OS will see them as
drive "B".

Virg Wall
 
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
(e-mail address removed)
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5.25" drives pretty much disappeared before ATAPI/IDE drives caught on.
Have never seen an IDE/ATAPI 5.25" floppy drive. Have seen some external
parallel port ones, and some really old SCSI ones. What type of machine are
you trying to connect it to? If has USB, you might be able to modify a USB
3.5" drive controller for 5.25.

Must be an interesting legacy application that still needs a 5.25" floppy
drive.
 
I have yet to see a mainboard that DOESN'T have a floppy connector...

You should be able to use a stock 5.25" drive on the floppy connector to
deal with these diskettes.

Jim Basinger said:
My app is as you might suspect; I as well as friends have many, many 5.25"
floppies, including many commercial programs which are still worth
something. At the very least, I want to be able to run NDD on these
floppies.

I have several computers I might be using this on; mostly pentiums with all
IDE's inside. I might like to have a usb portable, and I can do that if I
can find an IDE drive.

Jim


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Are using an older o/s to do this? I think MS dropped the 5.25 floppy
support in Win98SE and up.
 
Like the others have said, why not just use the floppy controller on your
motherboard. They all have them, why are you looking for a floppy with an
ide interface that just isn't a standard for any floppy drives?

Jim Basinger said:
My app is as you might suspect; I as well as friends have many, many 5.25"
floppies, including many commercial programs which are still worth
something. At the very least, I want to be able to run NDD on these
floppies.

I have several computers I might be using this on; mostly pentiums with all
IDE's inside. I might like to have a usb portable, and I can do that if I
can find an IDE drive.

Jim


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The standard floppy controller on the motherboard will work with a 5.25"
floppy. Just put it on the "non-twisted" part of the connecting cable and
set the BIOS correctly.

The 5 1/4" drives are hard to find and getting more expensive, but almost
all modern BIOSs can be set to work with them. The OS will see them as
drive "B".

Virg Wall
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If someone still needs some, there is always
http://www.pcliquidator.com/detailproduct.asp?which=541

Pulls, but a buck a piece, you can afford to get a few for spare
 
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
(e-mail address removed)
 
My app is as you might suspect; I as well as friends have many, many 5.25"
floppies, including many commercial programs which are still worth
something. At the very least, I want to be able to run NDD on these
floppies.

I have several computers I might be using this on; mostly pentiums with all
IDE's inside. I might like to have a usb portable, and I can do that if I
can find an IDE drive.

Jim
 
Jim Basinger said:
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
(e-mail address removed)
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You don't need a special "modern" IDE floppy, you just need a special cable
which has that old flat socket for 5,25" floppy drive. I have one in my old
486DX2/66.
I know I can hook it up, but the drive doesn't work though. It gave up eons
ago.
That cable has both normal IDE connector for modern 3,5" drives as well as
the socket connector (I don't know it's correct name), so it's universal for
connecting floppies.

Hope it helped.

Bye
 
I agree. Some floppy drive cables even have 4 connectors, so you can have
either a pinned or edge connector, no matter if it is the first drive on the
cable or the second.

THe only motherboard I can think of that might not have a flopyy controller
is probably one in an apple computer. Although they do have external ones.

Nic
 
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