Now that's something I've been hoping someone would make for a *long* time! (Results of the 720K format failure are making me curious if there is 2.88MB diskette/drive support, though the numbers seem a bit high.)
+MarkTheMorose Such commentary is meant to be humorous in nature. (That said, I do wish that modern motherboards would bring out the logic to a connector since it already exists in just about every LPCIO in use. There's no good reason at all why someone shouldn't be able to use a floppy drive in their brand new system if they want to.)
Hey uxwbill hehe... Merry Xmas. I'm looking to go retro and looking to get. 5.25 inch drive. I had sooo many computers with all this retro tech and I got rid of all it when moving out office back in 2004-2005. Now it's hard to find some of that stuff and nostalgia is strong ... Haha. I did get a 3.5 inch floppy
Excellent tute. I've a 30 year old 3.5 inch drive sitting in a box, doing nothing. I thought I might try to insert it into my 2019 workstation and then see what else I needed to get it up and running and communicating via USB or SATA - and maybe even booting some DOS off a high density 1.44MB floppy. This video gives me some hope.
The "Parameters not supported" is a bug between the Windows built-in formatting tool and 720K floppies over USB. If you use a third party tool, such as "MaxFormat", you should have no trouble formatting a 720K floppy with your setup.
Great tip!! I'm going to try getting my LS-120 drive working still (Which was the only real solution before these converter boards came on the market probably around the time that this video was made!)
That FDD cable with a socket is from an Iomega Ditto QIC-style tape drive. I have one and can confirm it's designed to let you use 2 FDDs and a Ditto at the same time.
if you find yourself adding an extra USB header converter, these usb plugs can be transplanted from one socket to another, you use a paperclip to press the clip while you pull gently and then you line up the top colors with the bottom colors. I've found myself having to pull out one side of the connectors to put something else in there.
Shame about the lack of 720k support. I have an external USB floppy drive which, from memory, is happy to at least read 720k disks. I think I recall using it a couple of times to put ADF images on a disk to copy to an Amiga. The 3 dislikes for this video: youngsters who don't believe floppy disks ever existed, and think the video is a late April 1st prank?
Nice job! Soon we'll have to do this with CD ROM drives, since a lot of computers no longer come with one. I had to buy a mini SATA to USB adapter with a CD ROM drive I took out of an old laptop. My laptop does have a delete plate and a space for a CD ROM drive, but the one I have was too thick to fit. Hey, all those unused USB connectors inside your computer might come in handy... you should connect those up and install the USB ports on one of the expansion slots, you never know when you'll need more USB ports eh?
my main desktop has a PCIE 7 port USB 3 hub. I still have 2 normal PCI connectors which is suprising for a pc that's 2016 age, I'm thinking I could get a USB 2/firewire hub or 2 of them since I have 2 slots available.
This thing is awesome. it would be better if it had 720k support, and a 90 degree connector on it. I was shocked to see you could boot from it as well.
of all the searching on ebay I've done for a product like this... amazing. I'll have to grab one when I have the money to get it, and subsequently see what the deal is with the board. looks like there should be a capacitor by the floppy power cable that's not populated, amongst other things. do you perchance have the model number on the board itself? from the listing I'm seeing USB_FDD81306? and another number on the opposite side on the second image.
I had an inspirion version of this. Had an Athlon 64 x2 and 2 gb of ram, along with an ATI Radeon X1600 card, and the bay was populated with a card reader that i salvaged for my build
Thank you very much! I'm not verse into electronics, but at 7:08, eBay lists one that's not the same as the one you show in your clip (which has two brown chips of some sort above the USB connection). Do you know if it's important or whatnot? I just bought one on Amazon after seeing your clip (I only need it for 3.5" HD 1.44MB floppies), and it's the same as the eBay listing - I haven't tried it yet as I'll get access to my disks in about a week (away from home).
I used the same thing from that seller in my IBM NetVista rebuild to continue using the floppy disk it came with the computer, on a count the face plate has one of the "floppy openings" that nothing other then a floppy can be in it.
Done this with my new Ryzen build....went a little further by changing the USB lead to one with an internal motherboard USB socket fitted. Works well enough but occasional OS access of the floppy drive will slow down booting.
In the past ive thought about adding a floppy drive to my desktop PC, but im not sure if it would actually be worth doing, and also there is an SD card reader installed into the 3 1/2 inch slot (my PC has 3x 5 1/4 inch slots and 1x 3 1/2 inch slot, 2 of the 5 1/4 inch slots have optical drives installed in them, meaning there is a spare 5 1/4 inch slot, so in theory i could either get an adapter and install a floppy drive into that slot, or move the SD card reader up into that slot)
Thank you for review. The connector does not support *formatting* DD diskettes as you stated clearly in the video, but can it read such diskettes? I mean if I already have a 720KB disk and insert into the drive, then will I be able to read it in Windows using this connector?
+Jeppe JCP What are you trying to do? A lot of the USBSATA bridges *will* pass power to an attached drive if they can. Laptop drives will generally spin up and run just fine from the power available over USB. Desktop drives can't: not only do they demand far more current than is available, they also need 12 volts.
I bought one of these and tried to use a PATA-SATA converter but haven't got it to work yet. I think it needs special drivers because it doesn't show up in Windows.
I was wondering if these internal "real" floppy drives even use the 12v supply (yellow wire), because the controller doesn't even have a 12v input, just usb
+vwestlife Amongst my modest collection of technological cast-offs and also-rans, I have an LS120 drive which is connected by IDE, and another parallel port model. Have you used one of those? They read and write 720k and 1.44MB floppies, as well as their own 120MB 'superfloppies'. They briefly competed with the 100MB Zip drive, and I understand that the laser servo technology was examined but rejected by Iomega before they came up with the Zip.
+vwestlife Maybe I said it wrong. I meant that my motherboard only has a channel for CD-ROM and harddrives. (80-pin) Not for floppies, though. (40-pin). So I'd like to know if there's some kind of conversion.
***** Floppy drives are 34-pin, not 40-pin. Don't confuse it with IDE/ATA just because the connector looks similar. They are two completely different interfaces.
+vwestlife Ehh, I don't know anymore. I'll just stick to CD-ROMs. (Thanks for the right info, though. If you know the answer to the conversion thing, could you tell me, please?)
***** I still don't know what you mean, because IDE and ATA are two names for the same thing. The 80-conductor cables were introduced with EIDE (Enhanced IDE) to allow higher data transfer rates, but is not necessary for the drive to work.
there was a hack back in the day to turn a 720k disk into a 1.4m, a tool to cut a notch in bottom case but reliability was bad, certainly would not put valuable data on it
+Matthew N They *should*, since the I/O controllers used on modern motherboards usually still include floppy drive controller logic. The reason they don't is probably a result of cost versus benefit: a lot of people aren't ever going to notice that it's gone. Even if it costs a penny, that still adds up.
+uxwbill I know exactly what you mean. heck my old motherboard died out from a faulty power supply. dynex best buy brand is not exactly great. but anyways that had a floppy. so friend of mine gave me a desktop computer build he did with dual boot system just didn't have floppy I used mine and I'm glad I did especially with stuff I like to use . uses floppy
Do you know any sites that could possibly sell a thinkpad 760xl HDD caddy and is able to ship worldwide? Those bloody caddys are rarer than a Bengal tiger. If you have any other ideas i could try i would appreciate it. The old drive was destroyed possibly because it was used at a power station here in the UK
vwestlife Yeah like i said they are rare and i have only seen one which i lost. There used to be stock on PCHUB but that requires others to "donate them".
MrMaguire I Know right! But to be fair the caddy is an encased unit for this model which would require tools to open. He probably just couldn't be bothered. I wonder can i run it without one? It has a floppy drive which works as far as i know
CPPRODUCTIONS1001 With a lot of laptops you don't need the caddy at all, since you can just put the bare drive in the open slot. With a ThinkPad 760XL things are probably going to be difficult... If you're handy with a soldering iron, you could possibly make your own adapter to connect the drive, then rig something to make it mechanically sound.
Please do not do that trick. Not only because it's not as reliable as using a real 1.44 MB disk, but also because 720K disks are getting hard to find, so please save them for the vintage computers which use them.
+Coach Floppy drives have died a long time ago. Their only valid use in todays world is for people who want to use older computers for playing retro games and such, but that can all be done with emulation anyways.
To facilitate data transfer with older computers, and to provide access to a significant collection of software and personal files that I have on floppy disks.
I bought a couple of DELL FDDM-101 internal laptop floppy drives, which also feature their own integral USB interface and port for external use. The good thing about this is it can handle both 720KB and 1.44MB disks, whereas all the other competing drives only do 1.44MB. They only cost me about £1 + P&P each from Ebay, and they still are if you look carefully. www.santech.com.br/upload/Produto9.31a9518ccebd6901cd3561524eb1c35e.jpg
Some USB floppy drives and all "real" internal 1.44 MB floppy drives work perfectly fine with 720K disks. To format a 720K disk in Windows XP or newer, use the command FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
To anyone looking for this converter: The original listing expired in January 2017, but I found another seller: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/34pin-1-44mb-floppy-connector-to-USB-adapter-cable-34-pin/292330257264?hash=item44103dbb70:g:9EUAAOxyj4hTID4h Keep it mind it may disappear again and it doesn't ship to all countries. Sadly it doesn't ship to Italy, which is where I live, but I'll try contacting the seller...
Of course, I find this video 1 day *after* buying an external USB 3 1/2" floppy drive for the purpose of installing it in a case for a standard legacy 3 1/2" drive... Ah well. Live and learn!
Is the internal floppy drive to USB adapter still for sale? I checked on eBay and it said it was discontinued on 12 June 2016 and I can't find it anywhere else. Do you know where I could get one?
That card's expensive... You can buy external USB floppy drives from around $13 up to around $20 from sites like dx.com , just enter in that site's search box SKU: 271810 or SKU: 428709 or SKU: 23557
That's only for reading and writing entire disk images. It's notlike a regular floppy drive where you can copy individual files or boot from a floppy disk.
+vwestlife you can make and edit disk images using WinImage but I still don't understand why nobody makes an universal floopy disk emulator that can be plugged anywhere and just work
I didn't realize how much all my favorite old tech channels knew about each other. Nice EEVblog reference!
Thank goodness someone found a solution to this. I've been wanting to make a sleeper PC but wanted the floppy drive to be functional
Now that's something I've been hoping someone would make for a *long* time!
(Results of the 720K format failure are making me curious if there is 2.88MB diskette/drive support, though the numbers seem a bit high.)
+uxwbill
Has vwestlife's Dell become a 'real computer', now it's got a floppy drive in it? ;)
+MarkTheMorose Such commentary is meant to be humorous in nature.
(That said, I do wish that modern motherboards would bring out the logic to a connector since it already exists in just about every LPCIO in use. There's no good reason at all why someone shouldn't be able to use a floppy drive in their brand new system if they want to.)
I think it's just cost cutting to the highest degree. At least I still have serial and parallel headers!
Hey uxwbill hehe... Merry Xmas. I'm looking to go retro and looking to get. 5.25 inch drive. I had sooo many computers with all this retro tech and I got rid of all it when moving out office back in 2004-2005. Now it's hard to find some of that stuff and nostalgia is strong ... Haha. I did get a 3.5 inch floppy
No there was no 2.88 mb floppy but a 120mb floppy
Excellent tute. I've a 30 year old 3.5 inch drive sitting in a box, doing nothing. I thought I might try to insert it into my 2019 workstation and then see what else I needed to get it up and running and communicating via USB or SATA - and maybe even booting some DOS off a high density 1.44MB floppy. This video gives me some hope.
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who's doing this. I've mounted an old floppy drive in my case, but I still need to connect it to power and usb.
This is pretty cool. I wasn't aware that such a thing existed.
WOW finally. I was looking for that kind of equipment since... well idk since i couldn't connect a floppy drive on my mainboard anymore :D thx
Finally, someone made this... I've been waiting for a converter to replace my shitty USB floppy drives for a LONG time.
The "Parameters not supported" is a bug between the Windows built-in formatting tool and 720K floppies over USB. If you use a third party tool, such as "MaxFormat", you should have no trouble formatting a 720K floppy with your setup.
Great tip!!
I'm going to try getting my LS-120 drive working still (Which was the only real solution before these converter boards came on the market probably around the time that this video was made!)
I think they put it in British Pounds since Hong Kong used to be a British colony
That FDD cable with a socket is from an Iomega Ditto QIC-style tape drive. I have one and can confirm it's designed to let you use 2 FDDs and a Ditto at the same time.
if you find yourself adding an extra USB header converter, these usb plugs can be transplanted from one socket to another, you use a paperclip to press the clip while you pull gently and then you line up the top colors with the bottom colors. I've found myself having to pull out one side of the connectors to put something else in there.
Shame about the lack of 720k support. I have an external USB floppy drive which, from memory, is happy to at least read 720k disks. I think I recall using it a couple of times to put ADF images on a disk to copy to an Amiga.
The 3 dislikes for this video: youngsters who don't believe floppy disks ever existed, and think the video is a late April 1st prank?
Finally this computer became a "regular modern computer" like you said in your Zenith Easy PC video :)
Now that's what I call Legacy support.
THANK YOU!!!! I've been looking for something like this for such a long time!
Nice job! Soon we'll have to do this with CD ROM drives, since a lot of computers no longer come with one. I had to buy a mini SATA to USB adapter with a CD ROM drive I took out of an old laptop. My laptop does have a delete plate and a space for a CD ROM drive, but the one I have was too thick to fit. Hey, all those unused USB connectors inside your computer might come in handy... you should connect those up and install the USB ports on one of the expansion slots, you never know when you'll need more USB ports eh?
my main desktop has a PCIE 7 port USB 3 hub. I still have 2 normal PCI connectors which is suprising for a pc that's 2016 age, I'm thinking I could get a USB 2/firewire hub or 2 of them since I have 2 slots available.
Hey VWestlife. What is the name of that converter board for that floppy drive ? I may want to purchase one of those from eBay. Thank you!😀
This thing is awesome. it would be better if it had 720k support, and a 90 degree connector on it. I was shocked to see you could boot from it as well.
of all the searching on ebay I've done for a product like this... amazing.
I'll have to grab one when I have the money to get it, and subsequently see what the deal is with the board. looks like there should be a capacitor by the floppy power cable that's not populated, amongst other things.
do you perchance have the model number on the board itself? from the listing I'm seeing USB_FDD81306? and another number on the opposite side on the second image.
I had an inspirion version of this. Had an Athlon 64 x2 and 2 gb of ram, along with an ATI Radeon X1600 card, and the bay was populated with a card reader that i salvaged for my build
Thank you very much! I'm not verse into electronics, but at 7:08, eBay lists one that's not the same as the one you show in your clip (which has two brown chips of some sort above the USB connection). Do you know if it's important or whatnot? I just bought one on Amazon after seeing your clip (I only need it for 3.5" HD 1.44MB floppies), and it's the same as the eBay listing - I haven't tried it yet as I'll get access to my disks in about a week (away from home).
I used the same thing from that seller in my IBM NetVista rebuild to continue using the floppy disk it came with the computer, on a count the face plate has one of the "floppy openings" that nothing other then a floppy can be in it.
Done this with my new Ryzen build....went a little further by changing the USB lead to one with an internal motherboard USB socket fitted. Works well enough but occasional OS access of the floppy drive will slow down booting.
In the past ive thought about adding a floppy drive to my desktop PC, but im not sure if it would actually be worth doing, and also there is an SD card reader installed into the 3 1/2 inch slot (my PC has 3x 5 1/4 inch slots and 1x 3 1/2 inch slot, 2 of the 5 1/4 inch slots have optical drives installed in them, meaning there is a spare 5 1/4 inch slot, so in theory i could either get an adapter and install a floppy drive into that slot, or move the SD card reader up into that slot)
Thank you for review. The connector does not support *formatting* DD diskettes as you stated clearly in the video, but can it read such diskettes? I mean if I already have a 720KB disk and insert into the drive, then will I be able to read it in Windows using this connector?
Is there anywhere you can buy a converter that converts SATA to USB so you can put usb directly into computer?
Yes, you can find those anywhere (eBay, Amazon, etc.).
+vwestlife When I'm looking for it, it comes up with SATA+Power > USB, there's no just like USB > SATA...
+Jeppe JCP What are you trying to do?
A lot of the USBSATA bridges *will* pass power to an attached drive if they can. Laptop drives will generally spin up and run just fine from the power available over USB. Desktop drives can't: not only do they demand far more current than is available, they also need 12 volts.
***** I want so i can like, have a usb storage directly connected to the motorboard via SATA cable.
So like the usb is a input and sata is output
MItsumi still makes USB internal floppy disk drives with built-in card readers...they used to be quite expensive.
On those, only the card reader uses USB. The floppy drive part uses the traditional 34-pin ribbon cable, requiring a floppy drive controller.
Cool man. I would recommend buying external usb floppy drive. I bought it for 7 pounds + 1 pound shipping from china.
But I don't want an external drive. I want an internal one. That's the whole point of this video!
VWestlife Well its still a great video. Keep up the good work ;)
Do you have a fancy modern pc or do you only use older out dated computer?
My most powerful PC is a Quad Core i5, but for editing video I use a Core 2 Duo laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
the dell you used looks new, i never notice it in your old vids either.
That's because it has never been in my videos before.
What if you use an old LS-120 SuperDisk Drive with an IDE/SATA bridge? It can read and write 1.44mb and 720kb floppys
I bought one of these and tried to use a PATA-SATA converter but haven't got it to work yet. I think it needs special drivers because it doesn't show up in Windows.
How much did the shipping cost?
Ah, easy msDOS dual bootable PCs of any generation, makes me happy lol
I was wondering if these internal "real" floppy drives even use the 12v supply (yellow wire), because the controller doesn't even have a 12v input, just usb
Most do not.
Try searching 34 pin USB to Floppy drive connector adapter lead cable on Ebay. Lots of listings.
you know, i should be that person that slaps a floppy controller onto a pcie 1x card
Is that floppy adapter just an ide adapter or is it different, I have an ide adapter for a 3.5 inch HDD but I don't know if that would work or not.
No, floppy drives do not use IDE. IDE is 40 pin, the floppy drive connector is 34 pin. They're completely different.
Too bad :(
+vwestlife
Amongst my modest collection of technological cast-offs and also-rans, I have an LS120 drive which is connected by IDE, and another parallel port model. Have you used one of those? They read and write 720k and 1.44MB floppies, as well as their own 120MB 'superfloppies'. They briefly competed with the 100MB Zip drive, and I understand that the laser servo technology was examined but rejected by Iomega before they came up with the Zip.
MarkTheMorose
I have an LS120 drive, but I've never seen one with a black faceplate.
will i be able to get all my information off of an old floppy with this?
where did you get the dos utilities and the super dos 7.10?
google it
why aren't there any 5.25 usb floppy drives ?
I wonder that too
I have 3.5 inch 512 mb floppy disks could I use those with the converter?
There's no such thing as a 512 MB floppy disk.
+vwestlife I must have read my floppy disk wrong I problem was looking a dvd
Is there any kind of ATA to IDE convertor cable? Just curious. So I don't have to use a hammer on my computer again.
IDE *is* ATA.
+vwestlife Maybe I said it wrong. I meant that my motherboard only has a channel for CD-ROM and harddrives. (80-pin) Not for floppies, though. (40-pin).
So I'd like to know if there's some kind of conversion.
*****
Floppy drives are 34-pin, not 40-pin. Don't confuse it with IDE/ATA just because the connector looks similar. They are two completely different interfaces.
+vwestlife Ehh, I don't know anymore. I'll just stick to CD-ROMs.
(Thanks for the right info, though. If you know the answer to the conversion thing, could you tell me, please?)
***** I still don't know what you mean, because IDE and ATA are two names for the same thing. The 80-conductor cables were introduced with EIDE (Enhanced IDE) to allow higher data transfer rates, but is not necessary for the drive to work.
there was a hack back in the day to turn a 720k disk into a 1.4m, a tool to cut a notch in bottom case but reliability was bad, certainly would not put valuable data on it
No longer avaliable...bummer :(
Where could I find an image of the 'super MS-DOS 7.10' bootdisk with NTFS/USB support?
google it
@@horaciodelre2210 pretty sure I’ve actually found it by now since it’s a year old comment but ok thanks lol
that's really cool . kinda pain but I honestly think they should just put the connection on the board just in case people want a floppy drive
+Matthew N They *should*, since the I/O controllers used on modern motherboards usually still include floppy drive controller logic. The reason they don't is probably a result of cost versus benefit: a lot of people aren't ever going to notice that it's gone. Even if it costs a penny, that still adds up.
+uxwbill I know exactly what you mean. heck my old motherboard died out from a faulty power supply. dynex best buy brand is not exactly great. but anyways that had a floppy. so friend of mine gave me a desktop computer build he did with dual boot system just didn't have floppy I used mine and I'm glad I did especially with stuff I like to use . uses floppy
Lucky i still have my old computer with 5.25 and 3.5 disk drives working.
98.1, huh? Wonder if that's WOGL or a different 98.1. You're in New Jersey, for all I know New Jersey gets WOGL on the radio too.
I was listening to 98.1 The Breeze from San Francisco online.
Do you know any sites that could possibly sell a thinkpad 760xl HDD caddy and is able to ship worldwide? Those bloody caddys are rarer than a Bengal tiger. If you have any other ideas i could try i would appreciate it. The old drive was destroyed possibly because it was used at a power station here in the UK
I don't know. Did you try searching the usual places (eBay, etc.)?
vwestlife Yeah like i said they are rare and i have only seen one which i lost. There used to be stock on PCHUB but that requires others to "donate them".
+CPPRODUCTIONS1001 That's what I really dislike about the data paranoia you get nowadays. The sellers always destroy the hard drive _with_ its caddy.
MrMaguire I Know right! But to be fair the caddy is an encased unit for this model which would require tools to open. He probably just couldn't be bothered. I wonder can i run it without one? It has a floppy drive which works as far as i know
CPPRODUCTIONS1001 With a lot of laptops you don't need the caddy at all, since you can just put the bare drive in the open slot.
With a ThinkPad 760XL things are probably going to be difficult...
If you're handy with a soldering iron, you could possibly make your own adapter to connect the drive, then rig something to make it mechanically sound.
Would it not be simpler to use an external USB floppy drive ?
You missed the entire point of the video!
I watch eevblog too, cool guy.
Thanks men. Next guy to watch and to subscribe D
+Gold :D
I presume this controller's limitations won't stop you from doing the old trick of drilling out 720K disks and formatting them as 1.44MB?
Please do not do that trick. Not only because it's not as reliable as using a real 1.44 MB disk, but also because 720K disks are getting hard to find, so please save them for the vintage computers which use them.
vwestlife Ok I promise I won't do that. :D Plenty of HD floppies around anyway. But I remember doing that as a kid.
vwestlife BTW, can you not do the reverse? tape up the hole on an HD floppy then format it as a 720K disk for use in older, DD-only machines?
spankmeister 3.5" HD and DD disks have slightly different magnetic coercivity so mixing up the formats always results in some unreliability.
I would do this just for the sound that you get on boot
the adapter cannot write 720 KB disks... What about read?
but why do you need floppy drives? floppies are obsolete.
+Coach Real computers have floppy drives.
+Coach Floppy drives have died a long time ago. Their only valid use in todays world is for people who want to use older computers for playing retro games and such, but that can all be done with emulation anyways.
+TheLameTechGuy A good portion of our government still uses floppies.
Blowtorch the Robot Thats terrifying in itself.
hah
If you want or need to use ancient technology, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Looks like your caught between the moon and new york city
he uses lots of old computers that only use floppy
It will be cool to do this with 5.25", but this do not support this as you mentioned
For that did you need a floppy drive today?
To facilitate data transfer with older computers, and to provide access to a significant collection of software and personal files that I have on floppy disks.
pretty cool mod
I bought a couple of DELL FDDM-101 internal laptop floppy drives, which also feature their own integral USB interface and port for external use. The good thing about this is it can handle both 720KB and 1.44MB disks, whereas all the other competing drives only do 1.44MB. They only cost me about £1 + P&P each from Ebay, and they still are if you look carefully.
www.santech.com.br/upload/Produto9.31a9518ccebd6901cd3561524eb1c35e.jpg
That’s a really decent spec computer with the floppy drive.
what's the easiest way I can format 720k floppies? Just buy a 720k drive and use that?
Some USB floppy drives and all "real" internal 1.44 MB floppy drives work perfectly fine with 720K disks. To format a 720K disk in Windows XP or newer, use the command FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
Awesome, thanks! I can definitely manage that. I'm going to make a copy of FreeDOS lite and use it to play around with my IBM Model 25.
Just use IBM PC DOS 2000, because FreeDOS is a RAM hog, and on an XT class system like the Model 25 you need every kilobyte of free RAM you can get!
Unfortunately they're not sold anymore
I bought 3 of these and all of them kept crashing, they just sopped recognising the drive after a couple of disc swaps.
To anyone looking for this converter:
The original listing expired in January 2017, but I found another seller:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/34pin-1-44mb-floppy-connector-to-USB-adapter-cable-34-pin/292330257264?hash=item44103dbb70:g:9EUAAOxyj4hTID4h
Keep it mind it may disappear again and it doesn't ship to all countries. Sadly it doesn't ship to Italy, which is where I live, but I'll try contacting the seller...
sadly i got one of these and it didn't work for me ;/
I use an LS120 (SuperDrive) with a $3 USB->IDE adapter.
But I don't think they ever made an internal LS120 drive with a black faceplate.
+vwestlife I've never seen one. I don't know if 720K floppies work on there either: I don't have media to test with.
Of course, I find this video 1 day *after* buying an external USB 3 1/2" floppy drive for the purpose of installing it in a case for a standard legacy 3 1/2" drive... Ah well. Live and learn!
Well, on the back it said "Studio Slim", i guess that is a hint for the name
I have a wifi card that has an internal USB A connector and I could probably install a drive into my pc using this
Good Adapter but i need this for an internal USB Plug. Why i should use those Adapters for an external USB Plug? It makes no sense :O
Keep watching!
Why did you link me to batteries?
Sorry, wrong link. I fixed it.
Wow, that was fast! Thanks!
Why didn't you just buy and external USB floppy drive?
Congratulations, you just missed the entire point of the video!
+vwestlife your probably right, you like to tinker and find a work around but why reinvent the wheel.
Here's adele
So many adapters and converters just to add a floppy drive, just another reason older PC's are better.
UXW bill says all computers have a floppy drive
Now it's $19.99.
Is the internal floppy drive to USB adapter still for sale? I checked on eBay and it said it was discontinued on 12 June 2016 and I can't find it anywhere else. Do you know where I could get one?
No, I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.
not sure if links in comments are allowed, but I found it, www.ebay.com/itm/34pin-floppy-connecter-to-USB-adapter-cable-34-pin-/292017075199
Now that's over as well...
Instead board, direct purchase an external floppy disk drive with USB.connector. allmost at the same price
But I wanted an internal floppy drive -- that's the whole point of the video!
That card's expensive... You can buy external USB floppy drives from around $13 up to around $20 from sites like dx.com , just enter in that site's search box SKU: 271810 or SKU: 428709 or SKU: 23557
Yes, but I didn't want an external drive... that's the whole point of this video!
+vwestlife Could you strip the plastic case off and use the same female-A to mobo header adapter that you have? Or would that not be bootable?
Most external floppy drives do not use a standard drive anymore, they use slimline laptop-style drives which use a proprietary connector.
Understood, but if you use the included USB connection and modify the faceplate to make it internal would it allow booting?
That would look like crap, whereas this one looks like a regular internal floppy drive.
its gone now :( I wanted one! oh well....
Mike Flynn There still is one, however under a different listing.
WHERE??? I NEED IT!!!
www.ebay.com/itm/34pin-floppy-connecter-to-USB-adapter-cable-34-pin/292065560629?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140602152332%26meid%3D5b61aca6db204ee988029839f223775c%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D292005491178
Thank you!
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could bought a usb drive and stuck it in the port lol
or you can use Kyroflux and you can read/write almost any floopy disk: www.kryoflux.com/
That's only for reading and writing entire disk images. It's notlike a regular floppy drive where you can copy individual files or boot from a floppy disk.
+vwestlife you can make and edit disk images using WinImage but I still don't understand why nobody makes an universal floopy disk emulator that can be plugged anywhere and just work
Why would you need a floppy drive in a modern computer
To facilitate data transfer with older computers, and to provide access to programs and data I have stored on floppy disks.
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