PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 08:24:58 CDT 2005


Doc Shipley wrote:
> John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
> 
>> Or you can use an external USB to floppy interface enclosure. A few on 
>> the list have commented on their use and types. In theory, you could 
>> have many, many drives this way.
> 
> 
>   I have several of these and have used several other brands and types 
> and they all have one thing in common.
> 
>   They support 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disks *only*.  I've taken 2 apart to 
> see if I could at least substitute a 720K-capable drive, and they're 
> "integrated".  No substitution possible.

How about SCSI floppy drives?

Peace...  Sridhar


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