Re: Floppy Drive Interface Tinkering
- From: "FyberOptic" <fyberoptic@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 11 Aug 2006 09:37:11 -0700
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
How about the laptops that let you use a special cable to plug a
floppy drive into the printer port?
I actually thought about finding a mostly external drive already, but
a.) it defeats part of the fun aspect of making something myself, and
b.) without the proper laptop to test it on, I might not know for
surely if it's working properly. My own laptop is a Thinkpad 600e,
which can use its floppy drive externally through the special port on
the side, but I generally just swap out the dvd-rom for the floppy when
doing my testing, so it's plugged in directly. I have no idea what the
signals/protocol for dealing with it in its external caddy would be,
though it might be interesting to find out, especially since I'm sure
it doesn't require 12v to run its motors like a normal one does.
.
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