Re: 5-1/4 diskettes

[George N. White III]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 15:19, Max Pyziur  wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Unlike 3.5 inch diskettes, where there are USB drives available, there is
> no such thing for 5 1/4 ones.
>
> I have some 5-1/4 diskettes which have data that I never bothered to
> transfer to newer types of media. So, I'm looking for recommendations in
> this regard:
> buy a 5-1/4 interal drive on eBay and try to make it work in Linux?

You need a controller. http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html has a read-only
controller with USB interface.
> find a service that will transfer the data at a cost?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Max Pyziur
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