Re: OT: Can modern PCs run 5-1/4" floppy drives?



Joerg wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Several years ago I bought some cases in which you can mount a hard
drive and talk to it via USB. IIRC the old AT standard cabling could
handle floppy as well as hard-drives. Maybe that would provide a
solution?

Yes, not elegant but it would.

No it wouldn't. Jim's memory is defective. IDE HDDs and floppies don't even have
the same number of conductors on the cable. The interface is totally different.

Graham

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