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Indy Floptical drive
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Indy Floptical drive
Is the Indy Floppy drive a regular SCSI2 3.5" Floppy drive?  or is it something totally different?
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11-22-2018, 06:44 PM
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RE: Indy Floptical drive
AFAIK, you can use a "regular" SCSI 3.5 inch floppy in there, but the original was (as mentioned in your thread title) a 21MB "floptical" drive instead.  An Insite I-325VM to be specific.  They could read/write normal 3.5 floppies and the special 21MB floptical disks, too.  The Indy drives do pop up on ebay from time to time.
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11-22-2018, 08:06 PM
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RE: Indy Floptical drive
Cool.. I will have to give it a shot. I have a spare Emu Emulator 4 keyboard that use for parts and it has a scsi floppy. I still have some old windows 95 applications n floppy that I want to try to install into soft windows 95.
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