Does anyone know if it is possible to convert my floppy drive to an external USB one? I have no problem with the caddy e.t.c. I am just not sure if there is a chip that I will need to convert from the loads of floppy pins to the reduced no. in a usb plug? Any help would be much appreciated!
You wouldnt be able to use a regular external enclosure, you would need a speical one made for floppies as a floppy doesnt run on the IDE bus. Easyest thing to do is go out and just biy one.
I have the same problem. I have an old widget that was designed to look to the system exactly like a floppy drive. I have looked for a converter floppy to USB for it, but had no luck so far. Must be a conspiracy. A friend also found that his old FlashPath Smartmedia adapter doesn't work with most USB floppies. Normal floppies are fine. He has to use the FlashPath adapter as part of a commercial package. Now he drags around an old laptop that still has an internal floppy just to read those Smartmedia.
Tried that already, it doesn't work. The software that reads it will only look for the floppy, but the dental camera that writes it will only write to SmartMedia. An older version of the same software package actually works with the Mitsumi USB floppy http://www.mitsumi.com/products/fa402amain.html, but not with the newer version my friend has.
well actually dos includes a cool command for just that problem, i dont see any reason why that software couldnt run from drive 'b' persay... if it existed right, just type into a command prompt 'subst b: (usb card reader):' , of course (usb card reader) would be replaced by the drive letter of the card reader, if say the laptop didnt have an internal floppy, or it was disabled in the bios, you could then mount that same card reader to drive a.... this may be a small solution
