Re: 5-1/4 diskettes

[Roger Heflin]

If you have an old enough motherboard that has a floppy disk
controller on it linux used to support them.

At worst you might have to download an older livecd if support was
removed in newer versions. (no idea if it was removed).

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 1:19 PM 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?
> find a service that will transfer the data at a cost?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Max Pyziur
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