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Has anyone seen one of these? IDE to USB converters are common enough, but despite an ehow article indicating otherwise IDE is not floppy. Its mostly just for shits and giggles really, but my new motherboards all lack floppy ports. I know there is such a thing as a USB floppy drive, they sell external ones and I had one for work that was really just an enclosure for a classic floppy disk drive. I could even boot off it. So I know the electronics exist. But I can't find one just like the one I had, which I could disassembled and use.
I'd like if I could find a converter that plugged into the back of a floppy drive and gave me an internal or external USB plug that I could attach to my motherboard. I haven't had much luck finding this.
I tried finding an internal USB floppy, but when I search the only thing I come across are combo drives where the actual floppy drive portion is still 34pin.
Do laptop/slim floppy drives use the same kind of cable as regular desktop 3.5" units? The only externals I can even find are slim and I'm not sure I could take it apart and plug it into my existing drives.
I'd like if I could find a converter that plugged into the back of a floppy drive and gave me an internal or external USB plug that I could attach to my motherboard. I haven't had much luck finding this.
I tried finding an internal USB floppy, but when I search the only thing I come across are combo drives where the actual floppy drive portion is still 34pin.
Do laptop/slim floppy drives use the same kind of cable as regular desktop 3.5" units? The only externals I can even find are slim and I'm not sure I could take it apart and plug it into my existing drives.
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