Re: Connecting Dell floppy

I have not seen a floppy that could be connected to an LPT (parallel) port in a decade or so. Yes, they were once common, but not in modern laptops, not even in Pentium antique laptops.


Sjouke Burry wrote:

Barry Watzman wrote:

Your post doesn't make a lot of sense. Are you sure that this floppy is for this computer? "Modern" computers that support an external floppy only support USB external floppies, which would not have a parallel port connector. Once upon a time (about 15 years ago) there were parallel port floppy drives, I have one here, but those won't automatically work on a PC (any PC) unless you install drivers, and such drivers are probably DOS drivers from the early 1990's, rather than anything that would even work under Windows XP (they might work under Windows 9x if properly installed).

You can plug things into a parallel port while the computer is on, normally, but usually the driver won't work unless it detects the hardware at powerup.

You can get USB floppy drives pretty cheap these days, www.computergeeks.com has them on sale for $10.


Ken_B wrote:

Hi... I've just acquired a floppy drive and parallel-port cable for use with my Dell C610. I know I can disconnect it using the "Safely Remove Hardware" option in XP, but I am wondering whether the computer has to be off when connecting it? No info in the user manual about that that I could find.

Thanks.

Well,I will throw away then all the laptops
I have seen with a lpt adapter cable :) :)
(DELL Latitude,where you can replace the cdrom
with a floppy, or you can connect the same floppy
to the lpt port)
.

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