2.88 floppies

[Mike Ford]

Apparently Intel has the trusty old floppy scheduled for the chopping 
block, so naturally I am more interested in them than ever.

Part of my purchase today was a pair of Panasonic LKM-F394-1 floppy drives, 
(Gateway branded LS-120), which I was kind of assuming would at least 
"read" a 2.88 floppy, but from what I have read it looks like I am wrong. 
Is it just the Fujitsu Flopticals that will read 2.88 outside of an actual 
2.88 floppy drive?


Also I know the list talked about it a little, but does anybody know how 
these USB floppy drives actually work? I saw a snippet in a dogpile search 
from a page I couldn't download anymore (halfbaked.com) that suggested a 
fairly raw signal is passed via the USB with the processing done by the 
host PC cpu. That would suggest a lot of modification possibilities wouldn't it?