External enclosure for 5-1/4 drive...

[Don Y]

der Mouse wrote:
>>> Is there a way to connect a 5-1/4 drive to a regular PC via USB?  Is
>>> there a commercial product available?
>> Yes, if you work up the circuit design yourself.  I don't think
>> there's a commercial product out there--if there is, I'd like to know
>> about it.
> 
> Surely this depends on what the 5¼" drive's interface is?  I'm sure
> I've seen ads for interface boxes for IDE, and probably SCSI, that
> would require at most a transplant of the adapter into a 5¼" case, if
> the drive you want to use has the matching interface.

Exactly.  I have a USB<->IDE i/f here that I use for machines
that *don't* have SCSI adapters (in which case, I just use
an external SCSI drive)