Re: Floppy emulator/flash adaptor

tns1 wrote:
Are there any commercial adaptors that would replace a floppy drive with some type of flash storage (sd, mmc, thumb drive)? To the host, this would have to look just like the floppy drive it replaced, but use different media.

The reason I ask is there are many old but useful embedded systems which have only the floppy for storage but no other interfaces (no IDE or USB).

I bought a Compact Flash IDE converter. This device actually has the IDE plug on it. You plug it in, and it will allow a CF card to behave like a hard drive. It is an embedded product, meant to replace spinning hard drives. Addonics sells one, but I found mine cheaper online:
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp
So why use a floppy, when you can use this device as a Hard Drive. There are utilities to make an embedded bootable drive. Most will be Linux, or FREEDOS based. Hope that helps!!
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