5.25 inch floppy

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-03-14 12:35am

Where can i get a 5.25 inch floppy drive, either on ide or with an adapter card (non isa would be helpful). I wanna play sim earth again...

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-14 12:43am

Er.... I took the one I had apart....

I'm sure I could find one intact. The question is: How much is it worth to you?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-03-14 12:50am

That would all depend on weather or not i can find sim earth to dl for free off the net ( i own a legal copy so they can't do shit about it). Well that and how much i feel like fucking with an old floppy drive at the point in time any deal is made.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-03-14 12:51am

You CANNOT get a 5.25" floppy that works on IDE.

The easiest route would be to go look in thrift shops and the like for old 486 boxes, which typically came with those floppy drives. Pull it out, find a floppy drive cable that has both the 5.25" flat connectors and the 3.5" pin connectors, then hook it up to the floppy port on the motherboard.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-03-14 12:58am

Never mind. 5 minutes on the underdogs found sim earth.