PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

Steven N. Hirsch shirsch at adelphia.net
Wed Oct 12 06:47:14 CDT 2005


On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:

> 
> On 10/11/2005 at 9:24 AM Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
> >How about SCSI floppy drives?
> 
> The problem with SCSI floppies is essentially the same--addressing is on 
> a sector number basis, not CHS.  So the drives have limited format 
> recognition capabilities.  I've never seen a 5.25' SCSI floppy, though 
> at one time SMS marketed a SCSI-to-FDC conversion board.  

I'm sitting here looking at a TEAC FD-55GFR 5.25" floppy drive with a 
TEAC-branded SCSI daughterboard mounted on it.  Picked this thing up for a 
buck at a flea market and don't know much about it.  Anyone else familiar 
with it?  I'm not even sure if this is a HD drive.

Steve


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