There are SCSI floppy drives, at least, the external interface is.
Maico Arts has one (or did have) that supports up to ED on his MSX.
The diskdrive had a SCSI<-->FDC conversion PCB mounted on the bottom.
As far as I know it works and the PC is able to read the disks.
One problem : The price... It sure wasn't for free...
A friend of mine has also a SCSI <--> MFM conversion PCB. Just SCSI-1,
but nice to have these very old harddisks to work...
(slow, came from an old 68k based mainframe)
Greetings from Erik Maas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 9:41 AM
To: msx
Subject: Re: SCSI Diskdrives
> I was wondering...
>
> The floppy diskdrives from the workstations (like that I'll be
>using next time) are SCSI, right?
Sorry to spoil the fun, but the FDD is neither SCSI nor IDE. Floppies
have their own controller...
There is however this MO-drive (superDisk) made by a.o Sony. Kind of
alternative to the ZIP-drive, which can also read normal 1.44MB
PC-floppies. Don't know, however, if this is a SCSI-drive or ATAPI...
It could be possible to read 1.44 MB floppies on MSX using this thing...
> "It makes me wonder..." (Led Zeppelin!)
"And she's buy-uy-ing a stai-airway to heaven...."
Eric
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