Thread: FDD adapters?

well, the floppy drive plug is kinda old. They are pretty much obsolete.

Most flash card / memory card readers though are USB and you will find a ton of them all over the place.

I know that, Thats why I thought someone may have come up with something useful that could plug into the same socket. Anything?

Nope. Only stuff i've seen is old tape drives. It's more or less been abandoned in favor of USB. Probably due to speed..

A few years back, they did have optical floppy drives that stored a good amount... 100 MB or so, off the top of my head. I believe they connected via the floppy drive controller, but I may be wrong there. Good luck finding them locally, though... they're probably found only online, and a quick Google didn't really get me much.

Update: Nope... I was thinking of the Superdrive. Apparently it connects via standard IDE. I wonder if there wouldn't be some way (coding-wise) to make custom calls to the floppy drive controller to get it to do something with a device other than a floppy drive, but I imagine anything you wanted to do could be done easier some other way.

I believe the floppy controller would be too slow to really do anything. Anybody remember how long it took to copy one disk? On the order of the time it takes to copy a whole CD these days. I would personally vote for the floppy controller's abolishment from all new mobos, but too many morons still release utilities and boot disks that will only write themselves to floppy...

.. what??