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I use floppy disks sometimes for use with my mavica and others, and I am trying to figure out whether they make adapters or 5.25 USB floppy drives or what. i have a USB 3.5 floppy drive, but it is so finicky that i am really hoping to be able to use internal drives. any help is helpful, thank you. i am also gonna be having an optical drive and a tape drive in the comp, but ya know, this thread is about floppy drives.

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From what i can see on the matter , it would be easier to just hook up a regular 5.25 floppy to a machine with a built in floppy controller.

the market for a device that turns a usb plug to a floppy controller is so small that even in the late 90s it was cheaper to just buy a floppy drive that was usb instead.

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2 minutes ago, emosun said:

From what i can see on the matter , it would be easier to just hook up a regular 5.25 floppy to a machine with a built in floppy controller.

the market for a device that turns a usb plug to a floppy controller is so small that even in the late 90s it was cheaper to just buy a floppy drive that was usb instead.

This method removes the ability to work with odd format (zoned CAV) disks.

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1 minute ago, emosun said:

how so , it would function as any 5.25 disk would have at the time or prior

Not all 5.25 drives used the same physical sector size or disc speed.

 

This is why you had to use odd adapters and a C64 drive back in the day to read C64 floppies on a PC.  Same with Apple II disks.

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