Adding a 5.25" floppy drive to Compaq Presario

[betablue89115]

As a vintage computer collector and user, I sometimes need a 'tweener" computer to write floppy disks for other computers. In this case, I have a Compaq Presario 5304 desktop/minitower computer. I want to add a 5 1/4" 360 K DSDD floppy drive to it so that I can create program and game disks for my vintage IBM 5150 computer. I saw something about using an open AGP slot to add a 5 1/4" floppy drive into the case, but for the life of me, I cannot remember where I saw that.

So, my question is this. Can I use a floppy cable or cable splitter to connect an additional floppy drive? Or do I have to get the AGP floppy adapter card? Where would I find such a card and the required cable? On these old floppy drives, there is no receptical either, so the cable will have to connect to the edge of the floppy drives circuit board. Is there anything else I will need to do to the system?

 

[Shawn]

You just need something like this:

 

[FoBoT]

the motherboard bios also has to support the type of floppy, besides just connecting it correctly to the motherboard

i tried this a few months ago with some old pentium motherboards and couldn't get it to work in XP or win98

good luck

 

[fuzzymath10]

You don't necessarily need a "vintage" system as long as it has a floppy drive connector. I have a P4 desktop from 2003, and it has a 5.25" 360KB and 3.5" 1.44MB drive on the one cable, and worked in XP and W7.

 

[Shawn]

I haven't hooked up a 5.25" floppy drive in a while, but last time I did I had no problems getting it to work in windows xp.

 

[Throckmorton]

You can get a USB 5.25" floppy controller. No one else thought to google "usb 5.25 floppy"? 😀

http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html

Edit: Crap, that's read only.