Anyone Know where I can get a 5" usb floppy drive?
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From: W. eWatson on 26 Jun 2010 14:28 See subject?
From: Jamie on 26 Jun 2010 15:02 W. eWatson wrote: > See subject? http://www.deviceside.com/ If you have a 5.25 floppy drive lying around? You can use the above product to read (only), the data. It does not write to the floppy... Jamie..
From: Baron on 26 Jun 2010 15:18 W. eWatson Inscribed thus: Anyone Know where I can get a 5" usb floppy drive? Modify a 3.5" one, just be careful to get one with a normal floppy drive in it, not one of those with the push in ribbon connector or the nasty laptop floppy drive. If you get the right type its just a matter of modifying an old cable or using a 5.25" to 3.5" adaptor. I played about with one a while back. It identified the drive correctly as a 1.2Mb device and worked as expected. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: W. eWatson on 26 Jun 2010 16:17 On 6/26/2010 12:18 PM, Baron wrote: > W. eWatson Inscribed thus: > > Anyone Know where I can get a 5" usb floppy drive? > > Modify a 3.5" one, just be careful to get one with a normal floppy drive > in it, not one of those with the push in ribbon connector or the nasty > laptop floppy drive. If you get the right type its just a matter of > modifying an old cable or using a 5.25" to 3.5" adaptor. > I played about with one a while back. It identified the drive correctly > as a 1.2Mb device and worked as expected. > I don't see how this would work. One cannot get a 5" disk into a space for 3.5", or did I miss something?
From: whit3rd on 26 Jun 2010 17:19
On Jun 26, 1:17 pm, "W. eWatson" <wolftra...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > On 6/26/2010 12:18 PM, Baron wrote:> W. eWatson Inscribed thus: > > > Anyone Know where I can get a 5" usb floppy drive? > > > Modify a 3.5" one, just be careful to get one with a normal floppy drive > > in it, not one of those with the push in ribbon connector... > I don't see how this would work. One cannot get a 5" disk into a space > for 3.5", or did I miss something? The 'external USB floppy' consists of a case, USB interface, and floppy drive. Some such devices have a standard floppy drive 34-wire header connector and you can connect those to a 5.25" mechanism. Usually, USB drives are bus-powered and take +5V only, while the 5.25" unit will likely need +12V as well. So, the really important part of the 3.5" USB drive is just its interface component; you'll need a 5.25" drive, a case, a data cable, and a suitable power supply, to complete the unit. |