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Re: Can anyone identify this floppy drive?
« on: October 09, 2007, 09:31:25 PM »
I think Moto's right - some laptops had external drives that connected to the printer port. I've got an old Omnibook 6000 that works like that.

Dunno about 5 1/4" drives on the Amiga, but 3,5" ones are all host powered and it looks like that combo has a fuse on the back. Is that an external power cord or the D-Sub cable? If that's a power cord, one port connects to the PC's printer port, the other to the printer - no way this is an Amiga drive.

I dimly remember that Schneider/Amstrad computers sometimes had external drives that were pretty much set up like that.

Ah yes: you can open the 3,5" drive's front lid a bit: if there are two sensors on the right side, it's a HD floppy.