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do any drivers exist?

Vlad said:
Should be built in. I've never needed a driver for one, just a good cable.
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Really, hmm I'll have to try again. I do havea cable that i think will work. tho my friends are gonna think i'm crasy, A 3 gig pentium 3 macine with a dual layer DVD burner, and a 5 1/4 inch floppy
 
We have a 5.25" floppy drive on our XP machine, so we can archive disk images using WinImage. Never had a problem, though I don't think I've ever tried to write to a disk in XP...just read. There might be format issues if you try to write to a 360K floppy--but, then again, maybe not.

We bought that WinImage program to back up our phone system disks, and it works very well. Anyone who knows me know how much I loath WinDoze, so if I plug a Win software package, it has to be good...
 
I decided to contribute some information. If your BIOS doesn't support 5.25" floppy, XP won't. Most new PCs don not support such floppy drives. If your machine is 2003 or lower, there shouldn'y be much of a problem. My 2003 Emachine I use as a server recognizes the 5.25 floppy perfectly, all I had to do was tell the BIOS I had it in there. Windows XP even has a special icon for the drive!

--Ryan

Oh, and I do archiving with 5.25" floppy as well. But seems my AT&T 6300 uses 360K floppies, AND it has an external 1.44MB drive, I just copy two disks(from A: and b:) onto my external drive, D:. Too bad I can't copy two disks at the same time with DOS, or Windows 1.03.
 
Well, my very modern dual core system from 2007 has no problems with 5.25 floppies at all. A lot of modern stuff still supports them but the drives don't always work right from age. Then again, this was taken care of more than a month ago, you're about 3 months too late.

-Vlad
 
I found that my 5.25" and 3.5" drives would only work together cabled together with the 5.25" set as primary. Easy to swap them over in the BIOS though.
 
dongfeng said:
I found that my 5.25" and 3.5" drives would only work together cabled together with the 5.25" set as primary. Easy to swap them over in the BIOS though.
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Yep, thats what I did with my Emachine. Of course, I didn't know THAT was why I was having troubles there. But in the BIOS I switched the drives, and seems it is now my home server, I also disabled booting from floppy devices.

--Ryan
 
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