laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 8 Jan 2007 at 16:27, dave06a at dunfield.com wrote:

> I have a Eurocom laptop with a connecter to which connects
> an external 5.25" drive enclosure - this appears as a standard
> floppy drive connected via the FDC - such an arrangement
> should work OK with ImageDisk - I'm pretty sure there are other
> older laptops with similar external drive schemes.

That Grid 1040 I sold on ePay had such an interface.  However, the 
hard drive interface was like nothing I'd ever seen before or since.  
I wonder how many modern laptop/notebooks even have the FDC 
controller inside.

As I mentioned, the Backpack can be talked to (if you've got the 
right driver) at low level--it has a NSC 8477, a bit of SRAM and a 
microcontroller in it that does nothing but relay the commands and 
data to the 8477.

Cheers,
Chuck