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Old 03-09-07, 11:21 AM
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Default USB Floppy drives ?

I know it sounds like a real dumb question, but I'm struggling.

I want a 1.44Mb floppy drive
I want it to connect via USB
I want it to fit in a drive bay of a computer
I want it's front bezel removable
I DON'T want any card readers with it.

Basically I have an old case that I REALLY like the look of, but the front of the case has a premoulded hole for a floppy drive (so the floppy drive has it's bezel removed and then lines up with the hole inside the case).
I want to be able to shoe horn a Pico-ITX motherboard into this case and still have a floppy drive (mainly so that if someone was to push a disk into the "floppy" drive there would actually be something there to catch it and read it :-)

Any know where I can get a floppy drive that looks "normal" but connects in via USB ?
Or some magical converter ? (34pin floppy to USB ?)

Thanks!

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Old 04-09-07, 01:30 AM
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Default USB Floppy drives ?

I did a quick search and didn't find anything that will mount in a drive bay unless you don't mind modding the case. Usually usb floppys are for external use, hence no front bezel. If you look long and hard enough you may find one, I just don't ever recall seeing one.
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Default USB Floppy drives ?

Try this guy he has large selection of hardware http://www.compuvest.com/
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Default USB Floppy drives ?

No luck here so far, only found USB external floppy drives through web search.
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