MAking an internal floppy How TO!!!

cdoublejj · Jun 16, 2014

I'm so doing this, the advantage for me is since my secondary machine is not just what i use for legacy formats and formatting and backing up/archiving it's also a multi boot, with this mod OSX with detect it as a USB floppy. the down side is the bios not see it as floppy but, that shouldn't matter it's new enough board that is flashes from FAT32 USB any ways.

Awesome if you still work and or play with legacy stuff. The ironic part is the Chinese manufacturers could make and sell these like hot cakes on eBay for super cheap. Also is you so wish you have wind up with a free Floppy connector (at least in my case) that could be used for another floppy drive or floppy drive emulator.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-3-5-Floppy-Disk-Drive-to-USB-emulator-Simulation-1-44MB-for-Musical-/251360060639?pt=US_Floppy_Zip_Jaz_Drives&hash=item3a863a24df

billbartuska · Jun 16, 2014

You can buy a USB floppy drive. Even Walmart has them
With a little shopping around they can be had for $10 -$12.

You can also get PCI to SATA adapters cheep, even ISA to SATA.

cdoublejj · Jun 17, 2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by billbartuska

You can buy a USB floppy drive. Even Walmart has them
With a little shopping around they can be had for $10 -$12.

You can also get PCI to SATA adapters cheep, even ISA to SATA.

Yup and now you can have it internal bundled up with the card reader. very convenient.

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