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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:27:01 IST Omer Zak wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. This</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat Linux</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes) for backups.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Now the floppy disk drive seems to have gone out of order and my friend</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> will need to read his diskettes in a modern PC as well as transfer to</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> it the contents of his hard disk (presumably connected via IDE or</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> whatever was available in the antediluvian period before the Big Dotcom</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Crash of 2000.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> 1. Are there any floppy disk drives with USB connection for reading</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> those diskettes?</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">There are usb floppy drives (3 1/4 ") ones you can buy in stores, they however use usb connectivity and soon to be out of major stores. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Be advised that modern kernels no longer support IDE floppy drives .</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Also finding media for it can be a pain in the tuchs.</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> 2. If one needs to temporarily connect an old hard disk (not having a</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> modern SATA interface) to a modern PC, what solutions are there?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">You would need IDE 2 USB connector , look at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/AGPtek-Drive-Adapter-Converter-External/dp/B00BIE996S/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Ide+To+Usb+Adapter&qid=1640252981&sr=8-5">https://www.amazon.com/AGPtek-Drive-Adapter-Converter-External/dp/B00BIE996S/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Ide+To+Usb+Adapter&qid=1640252981&sr=8-5</a> for examples. </p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">fyi , as he probably still have a working sound card, he can use a modem connection with a modern pc using <a href="https://bellard.org/linmodem/">https://bellard.org/linmodem/</a> or a similar tool (I didn't check bellard's work for a while , but he is the go-to place for such actions).</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">sound card -> two cables -> into a usb sound card . it's 33.1 kbps but it should be a fun experience.</p>
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