Re: Connecting Dell floppy

Actually this is a Dell floppy drive, which can be used in a bay OR
connected to the parallel port if the bay is in use. In my case, I have a
CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive in the bay, so I wanted to be able to access a floppy
disk without swapping out the drives, if necessary. Make sense??

Seems to me there are a lot of Dell laptop users out there, so why would
this question be confusing???


"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:44B9A717.4080304@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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