I am trying to overcome my mobo's single-floppy limitation by adding a 2nd one via USB. Easy enuf, you say? USB external floppy?
Yes, but I am trying to make this look like a stock install, in the 2nd 3.5" slot in my tower. The many internal floppy/card reader combos use USB for memory cards but the standard floppy interface cable for the floppy drive.
I haven't found any external drives that would look anything like a stock install, even if I duct-taped 'em into place LOL
Is it possible to find/make a USB/floppy adapter/cable? There are USB adapters for everything else - IDE, serial, parallel, network, ps/2, monitors...why no floppy>USB adapters? Surely someone somewhere has made a floppy>USB cable/adapter? Or is this not possible?
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Anonymous2006-02-16 6:39
Can't you just connect it to the USB header pins on the motherboard? Or put a PCI USB card in there and connect it to the internal USB port on that (the Belkin ones I've seen have four external ports and one internal)?
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scuzzy2006-02-16 9:09
all motherboards should support two floppies. you need a twin floppy cable. the twin cable has a twist in the end of the cable for the A drive, and the other connector (same end) is for the B drive.
If you pickup this connector. you know what I mean.
a floppy>USB adapter would require the bios supporting it or having it only operate in Windows (which is worthless).
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Anonymous2006-02-16 11:30
I'm sorry, but all mobos do NOT support 2 floppies, for example name brands such as DHELL.
And yes, I have an internal USB connection offa my PCI USB card but still need a floppy interface>USB adapter.
I cannot believe there is no such animal when IDE>USB adapters are commonplace...
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Anonymous2006-02-16 16:02
with greater frequency these days, floppy drives are not supported on motherboards. however, if your motherboard does have a floppy connector, and if you have the cabling for it, you can actually connect a good deal more than just 2 floppy drives.
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Anonymous2006-02-16 16:59
Hmmm, what sort of things have a floppy interface other than floppy drives? This may be on the right trail for me.
...I know I am never going to have a B Drive on this 'puter. My goal is to simply fill this slot on my box with a USB floppy drive while at the same time having it look like an actual installed drive i.e. like a real B Drive. Just for the WTF factor...to amaze all my Dhell friends.
I have googled 'till I puked, in all sorts of obscure corners of the Intarweb but to no avail. There are USB adapters for Serial, Parallel, IDE, SATA, networking, mouse/keyboard, monitors...I can hook up an old internal hard drive via USB, I got the interface right here.
In fact, in more obscure websites, mostly from China, there are all sorts of amazing USB hookups.
But not a single internal floppy to USB...
Why not floppy? Is there some sort of limitation? USB drives can be bootable or not. USB CD Drives can be bootable or not. A little thumb drive can be bootable...so that does not seem to be the limiting factor. Has anyone hacked an interface on their own?
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Anonymous2006-02-16 17:01
Why not floppy? Is there some sort of limitation? USB drives can be bootable or not. USB CD Drives can be bootable or not. A little thumb drive can be bootable...so that does not seem to be the limiting factor. Has anyone hacked an interface on their own?