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CannibalBaldy   02-22-2003 at 11:44:28 PM

Hi all,

Wondering whether anyone here knows if the trusty old floppy drive will ever make it to serial ATA. Thought it would be a shame for floppy drives to still be connected using uglier ribbon/rounded cables after harddrives and optical drives make their way to the new standard. Its not like there would be a performance boost or anything, but at least there would be consistancy :)

Anywho, anyone know?

Thanks in advance.

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tombance   02-22-2003 at 11:47:00 PM
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Do floppy Drives even use the ATA standard? I dont think they do, in which case it wouldnt work. In any case I think they are going to be phased out pretty soon. A lot of the people on here no longer use floppy drives and I dont either. I have turned over completely to the CDR side, no more slow read/writing for me.

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basmic   02-23-2003 at 01:15:20 AM
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A SATA LS120 drive would be nice, and would replace most of the floppy-drive's features!

If only they sold LS120 in SATA though! :frown:

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Teq   02-23-2003 at 01:49:45 AM
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Iomega has just come out with a 750meg ZIP drive...

Very interesting.

But the trusty ole 1.44 3.5" floppy is about to go the way of the dinosaur, along side it's 5.25" predicessors.



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jihiggs   02-23-2003 at 08:21:49 AM
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they have stopped producing floppys, give them another 6 years or so, and there wont be any left that are reliable. problem solved.

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svol   02-23-2003 at 01:03:20 PM
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The original FD use a whole different standard and it is totally useless to make them SATA compatible.
But I expect that IDE ZIP-drives will get SATA connection in the future.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on :eek:

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elzt   02-23-2003 at 08:00:39 PM
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So after all the floppys are gone, what will happen to the drive letters A and B? Also wondering who came up with the idea of drives A and B are floppy while the most important and frequently used drive is in C.

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svol   02-23-2003 at 08:16:24 PM
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We probably wont use them because all current Windows version assign A and B to floppy drives.
In the beginning of the PC hard-drives didn't exist or where uncommen, so they called the floppy A... atleast in Windows.

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lhgpoobaa   02-24-2003 at 05:46:44 AM
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gonna be interesting that... with a and b become removable drives? will C: cease to exist as such thanx to windows taking people furth and further away from the actual workings of the PC?

what WILL be the replacemnt for floppies?
LS disks? zip? cd-rw? cd-rw and mt ranier? usb portable flash units?

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svol   02-24-2003 at 07:54:02 PM
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If USB keys get cheaper then they could be the new floppy for some years.

Anyway terminals often haven't got a HD or FD at all.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on :eek:

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lhgpoobaa   02-25-2003 at 12:46:17 AM
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One can hope yes.
Though problems exist like older computers with no usb or incompatible usb...
usb ports that burn out hardware
no usb ports conviently at the front
USB device booting?

etc

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Civilized   02-25-2003 at 05:01:05 AM
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I dont even run a floppy anymore...

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Defective   02-25-2003 at 05:17:16 PM
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SATA?! woohoo! I just got a .5KB per sec increase with my short run high speed shielded floppy cable. With SATA I should be able to eek out another .5. My access time is up 1ms with the performance lubed floppy and its upgraded BIOS.

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svol   02-25-2003 at 10:03:34 PM
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How did you do that?!?

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on :eek:

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Crashman   02-25-2003 at 10:22:37 PM
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For the last 4 years I've seen motherboards that could treat an LS120 drive as Drive A through a BOIS setting. And my SCSI card can make ANY removable drive into Drive A, even a CD-ROM!

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elzt   02-26-2003 at 08:11:48 AM
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Thanks for the reply. It would be nice if all mobos allow the reuse of drive letters A and B.

BTW, do you think new technology stuff like portable usb flash, microdrive and external hard drive will eventually replace hard disk drives as well?

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Crashman   02-26-2003 at 08:23:40 PM
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Not in the forseeable future. Solid State Disk might replace hard drives, but they'd still be loaded with the same stuff. And even then, inexpensive solid state disks are many years away.

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