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April 2nd 04, 08:13 PM
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SATA bridgeboards for legacy drives
Okay, I know I'm crazy for wanting this, but...
Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25" SATA floppy drive. 3. USB bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive (instead of # 2). I know, I'm only a market of one. But, hey, they make 3.5" USB 4x floppy drives. I can dream. Plextor announced a 12x SATA DVD+/-RW drive. I want everything SATA. I don't want to transfer everything to a hard drive or CD. I don't care about speed. I just want connectivity. 
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April 2nd 04, 08:15 PM
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"Jason Hunsaker" wrote in message om... Okay, I know I'm crazy for wanting this, but... Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25" SATA floppy drive. 3. USB bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive (instead of # 2). I know, I'm only a market of one. But, hey, they make 3.5" USB 4x floppy drives. I can dream. Plextor announced a 12x SATA DVD+/-RW drive. I want everything SATA. I don't want to transfer everything to a hard drive or CD. I don't care about speed. I just want connectivity. You've got it with USB.
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April 2nd 04, 08:57 PM
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Do they even make a 3.5" or 5.25" floppy drive which attaches
using the old pATA interface???? I have never seen one. Jason Hunsaker wrote: Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25" SATA floppy drive.
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#4
April 2nd 04, 10:19 PM
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Walt wrote:
Do they even make a 3.5" or 5.25" floppy drive which attaches using the old pATA interface???? I have never seen one. Sort of. The LS-120 and LS-240 have PATA interfaces and will read and write standard 1.4 meg 3-1/2" diskettes. On the other hand, ATA and ATAPI are not the same--SATA doesn't automatically support ATAPI--there are some bridge chips that will when used with a host adapter containing the same manufacturer's chip allow the connection of removable-media devices but that's not something one can count on working at this point. Jason Hunsaker wrote: Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25" SATA floppy drive. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
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April 3rd 04, 03:19 PM
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April 3rd 04, 04:25 PM
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April 3rd 04, 08:36 PM
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:23:37 -0500, Gary Tait
wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:19:44 GMT, JT wrote: On 2 Apr 2004 11:13:57 -0800, (Jason Hunsaker) wrote: Okay, I know I'm crazy for wanting this, but... Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25" SATA floppy drive. 3. USB bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive (instead of # 2). I know, I'm only a market of one. But, hey, they make 3.5" USB 4x floppy drives. I can dream. Plextor announced a 12x SATA DVD+/-RW drive. I want everything SATA. I don't want to transfer everything to a hard drive or CD. I don't care about speed. I just want connectivity. Floppy drives, especially 5.25, are not going to be engineered for a new interface standard. There is NO market or demand for it. Not worth it from a manufacturing stand point. They are disappearing. 5.25 have already disappeared from all but dying niche markets. No advantage to have a slow drive like a floppy on a SATA controller. JT But anything you can connect a standard 3.5" PC floppy drive, you can connect a 5.25" drive to, if you want to work at it. True enough, but doesn't help with the original question. Floppies are disappearing. No one is building new interfaces for them. No reason to. When the floppy interface disappears from the motherboard, don't bother trying to connect a floppy. JT
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#9
April 3rd 04, 09:09 PM
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"JT" wrote in message s.com... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:23:37 -0500, Gary Tait wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:19:44 GMT, JT wrote: On 2 Apr 2004 11:13:57 -0800, (Jason Hunsaker) wrote: Okay, I know I'm crazy for wanting this, but... Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25" SATA floppy drive. 3. USB bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive (instead of # 2). I know, I'm only a market of one. But, hey, they make 3.5" USB 4x floppy drives. I can dream. Plextor announced a 12x SATA DVD+/-RW drive. I want everything SATA. I don't want to transfer everything to a hard drive or CD. I don't care about speed. I just want connectivity. Floppy drives, especially 5.25, are not going to be engineered for a new interface standard. There is NO market or demand for it. Not worth it from a manufacturing stand point. They are disappearing. 5.25 have already disappeared from all but dying niche markets. No advantage to have a slow drive like a floppy on a SATA controller. JT But anything you can connect a standard 3.5" PC floppy drive, you can connect a 5.25" drive to, if you want to work at it. True enough, but doesn't help with the original question. Floppies are disappearing. No one is building new interfaces for them. No reason to. When the floppy interface disappears from the motherboard, don't bother trying to connect a floppy. Or have the sense to use USB that will support floppy drives for a while yet.
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#10
April 5th 04, 11:32 PM
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"J. Clarke" wrote in message
Walt wrote: Do they even make a 3.5" or 5.25" floppy drive which attaches using the old pATA interface???? I have never seen one. Sort of. The LS-120 and LS-240 have PATA interfaces and will read and write standard 1.4 meg 3-1/2" diskettes. On the other hand, ATA and ATAPI are not the same-- Yes, they are, from a hardware standpoint. SATA doesn't automatically support ATAPI-- Yes, it does. It's the bridge chips on some drives and host controllers that present a problem. They shouldn't really be on the market at all. There appears to be a problem with some ATAPI devices that don't react properly so that the bridge chip doesn't know what to do unless it knows the command beforehand there are some bridge chips that will when used with a host adapter con- taining the same manufacturer's chip allow the connection of removable-media devices but that's not something one can count on working at this point. It shouldn't be a problem when the bridge recognizes the ATAPI commands and knows how to handle the different protocol. If that's the case, different makes should work fine together. Jason Hunsaker wrote: Wanted: 1. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 3.5" floppy drive, or 3.5" SATA 4x floppy drive. 2. SATA bridgeboard for legacy 5.25" floppy drive, or 5.25" SATA floppy drive.
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