-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2017-12-13 at 02:25 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Per Jessen composed on 2017-12-13 07:25 (UTC+0100):
Paul Neuwirth wrote:
By the way I am looking for a cheap 5.25" SCSI FDD.. they exist, but are traded for horrific prices.. ;) without ISA and FDC I do not know how to get my old drives working..
Buy an old PC? Not necessarily that old, depending on your definition of "old". New PCs and motherboards at least as recently as 2009 were still shipping with ISA bus floppy controllers. Examples:
My desktop machine has a floppy drive, I installed it just in case I want to inspect and retrieve some data from old floppies I have. I still have some old backups made in floppies which I wish to retrieve one day. The bay would accept a 5¼" drive (same size as cdrom drive, but of course, I have a 3½ only. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloxIKYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VfZQCfWb6pNd3/GpK9qHFzDOLm/9ch +gsAniqSQX49hyXbRgwf+4b6BXV1Ylks =MHke -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----