Yes I made the floppy drive work! There’s a USB adapter hidden in the back, and modular power supply makes it simple to hook up. I actually use them at my job (machine shop) though we normally just use an RS-232 cable connection to transfer files, so disks don’t get any actual use. I really wanted to ensure the 3.5 drive worked even though the CD-ROM doesn’t work, I had to put the AIO radiator up there instead.
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daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIs the floppy drive hooked up? I have a floppy drive in my modern machine.
Ydna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I haven’t seen an FDD header on a motherboard since my P6T (with an i7-920). And even then, it wasn’t worthwhile to use it.
Do you have a usb-fdd adapter? Or just a USB internal floppy drive?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
www.ebay.com/itm/404725379529?_skw=floppy+drive+u… www.ebay.com/itm/271698611804?_skw=usb+header+to+…
This is pretty similar to what I use
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
You need to get with the times, grandpa. Get yourself a Zip drive.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do Zip drives work with Linux?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It looks like you could, but probably requires you to build a kernel that supports all the old crap they took out years ago.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they ever remove floppy support, I’ll be sad.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I had the WORST luck out of those. I had a dozen zip disks go bad and 1/3 Jaz drives.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I guess the material of a floppy disc coupled with near HDD densities wasn’t a good combination. Floppies would just randomly go bad at the best of times.