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

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Fred Cisin may have mentioned these words:
>I don't know of ANY USB nor SCSI 3.5" drives that DO use a "conventional"
>floppy within.

what about the DEC SCSI bridgeboard for (at least) the VaxStation/VaxServer 
3100 series machines? I'm *almost* positive that it takes a standard 
(1.44IBMeg) 3.5" floppy drive - now whether that can be kludged to handle a 
5.25" drive, I can't say - I don't know if the bridgeboard *expects* an 
1.44IBMeg drive at those datarates...

>The common USB drives do NOT convert USB to anything even
>vaguely resembling SA400.

The more I've been getting back into my CoCo shiznit, I've been wondering 
about the Toshiba PCMCIA floppy drive - Anyone know if that uses a "normal" 
floppy chipset that could be kluged to handle a 5.25" drive?

I've been diddling with DriveWire for the CoCo, running it thru a 
USB->RS232 adapter (my Fujitsu Lifebook doesn't have normal 
serial/parallel/floppy ports - heck, even the replaceable internal Floppy 
drive is USB... (tho if it wasn't, I'd assume it would be IDE instead of 
Floppy, as that would still save them a bit on the chipset to not implement 
that separately...)

Google stumbled me across this:

http://www.galaxystor.com/SCSI_Floppy_Drive.htm

Take this with a grain of salt, and prolly a fat pocketbook, but the PDF 
shows a picture of the circuit and it has a 34-pin connector... and the PDF 
does mention something about 1.2IBMeg...

Ah well, maybe the truth *is* out there... ;-) [[ This from a guy who's 
only watched 2 episodes of the X-files...]]

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
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