Smallest & thinnest / slimmest Floppy Drive? (1.44)

[dejacky]

Who makes the smallest and slimmest floppy 1.44 floppy drive and where can I get it? It's going in my Shuttle SN45G via modding of course. Since I have 2 Hard drives and a fast dvd-rom/cdrw combo drive, I can't fit one in the regular bays. Thanks!

 

[dejacky]

bump

 

[Jeff7]

The only slimline floppies I've seen are internal things from laptops, which aren't a whole lot bigger than a floppy disk, though they are a good bit thicker than one. I know adapters exist to let you plug a laptop CD drive into a standard IDE cable, but I don't know if such a thing exists for floppies.

 

[Peter]

Those laptop FDD drives aren't using the standard 34-pin connector.

Your solution would be to use one of those (rare) combo drives that fit a laptop FDD and a laptop CDROM drive into a standard 5.25" bay drive box.

Or get rid of the FDD altogether, and use USB sticks, CDRW media and/or a card reader instead.

 

[dejacky]

Any suggestions on where to look?

 

[tallman45]

Compaq and Dell used to make what they called Small Form Factor Pc's. You may be able to search their sites for a slim drive.

 

[Zepper]

www.compgeeks.com has several units you may be able to adapt - look under "Removable Storage".
.bh.

 

[dejacky]

Zepper,
perhaps cutting THIS in half to only use the floppy drive might work?

 

[Zepper]

Pulling the guts out of one of the external USB units might be a better way to go. It's possible that the circuitry for the FDD and for the memory card reader is all on the same PCB - difficult to unsiamese...
. You could always get one of each, decide which best does the job, then sell/return the other one. 😉
.bh.
There's the :sun: !

 

[tenoc]

I recall some of the laptop floppy drives plugging into the serial port.

You might check out that possibility \.