6 Jan
2013
6 Jan
'13
12:22 p.m.
On 01/05/2013 02:29 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Nick Copeland wrote:
I think his concern with USB floppy drives was that it might not be
possible to write non-standard floppy formats over USB, since some of
the non-standard formats require changing settings in the floppy drive
controller itself.
I don't know how much they cost now. We still use the unit that came
with my wife's now-extinct and very ancient Sony Vaio SuperSlimPro! Or
we use the server's floppy drive ...
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I have a feeling this need an IDE (PATA) floppy.
Why IDE? There are external USB floppy drives around. OTOH, some of
them cost like a leg.