tlug: Re: SPARC floppy drives..?

[Joe Marchak <joem@example.com>]

Scott wrote:
> The other day, while waiting for CDs to burn, I was staring intently at
> this SPARC/2 that I got at the tlug auction in October.  It suddenly
> dawned on me that there's no floppy drive in it!  I would have felt
> silly putting a disk in the hole just to have it fall down onto the
> bottom of the case :)
> 
> Anyhow, I can't do anything with it until I get a floppy drive for it.
> Does anyone know where I can buy one and how much they cost?  Internal
> floppy disk, sparc/2...?

You can use a normal PC floppy drive on a SPARC.  The only difference is
that "normal" floppy drives lack the motor needed to eject the disk.  I've
done this on a Sparc 2 with no problems. 

-Joe.


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