i belive (looking through archive.org), kryoflux.com used to sell a usb adapter for 5.25" floppy drives. their current web page has the sales tab replaced by "we are temporarily restructuring", but i seem to recall a couple years ago not selling anything either. going back further I think I saw a usb controller for 5.25 inch drives, though not 8 inch, sadly.
Anybody have any news on whether they will actually come back? <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 5:24 AM Peter Coghlan via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > Paul Berger wrote: > > > > Several years later I was a hardware support person in the Toronto Lab > > and one of the rooms I looked after had a 3880 controller with a couple > > 3380 DASD units and the first time I heard the 3880 start up I thought I > > know that sound, so I looked inside and sure enough it IMLed from a 33FD. > > > > In the 1980s, the college where I studied and later worked had a 3880 > managing > two strings of 3375 DASD with four units in each string. This arrangement > ran > for several years. > > On one occasion, after a power failure, the 3880 failed to restart. I > later > heard from the people that maintained it that the floopy disk it imled from > had either a ring of oxide worn off or the actual disk itself worn through > due to prolonged head contact with the same track of the rotating disk. > > The implication was that the disk had been rotating continuously even > though it > was only required at iml time. Was this the intended mode of operation or > was > the motor supposed to stop once iml was complete? > > As far as I recall, the floppy drive was mounted vertically in the 3880 > cabinet. > > I managed to snag the switch panel from that 3880 when it was eventually > retired. > > Regards, > Peter Coghlan. > -- --Carey
