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I am using FreeDOS on a Thinkpad laptop. I'm also trying to get OS/2 Warp installed (I still have my Warp 3 CD). Most old DOS software installs from floppies. Rather than try and wrangle a USB floppy drive and a pile of old floppies I am hoping to save time, money and hair by using a Gotek/Openflops. Is it possible to use one of the cheap Floppy-to-USB adapters from eBay and plug the Gotek into it ? As an aside, I also have an old Acorn BBC B (bought new with a 5.25" drive, which shows my age!) and ZX Spectrum 48k so a Gotek would also be useful on the Beeb. Regards |
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My impatience got the better of me me and I went out and bought the Openflops and floppy-to-usb adapter. To answer my own question (and hopefully help others), YES, plugging the two together works. Note that all the floppy-to-usb adapters appear to have the same restriction of only reading 1.44MB floppies. So long as the floppy image on the USB stick is 1.44MB (1,474,560 bytes) it works. I've tested this on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and the file manager automounts the images as expected. |
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I can also confirm it works a) on FreeDOS as a regular 1.44MB floppy |
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Tested and working on Windows 11 |
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My impatience got the better of me me and I went out and bought the Openflops and floppy-to-usb adapter.
To answer my own question (and hopefully help others), YES, plugging the two together works. Note that all the floppy-to-usb adapters appear to have the same restriction of only reading 1.44MB floppies. So long as the floppy image on the USB stick is 1.44MB (1,474,560 bytes) it works. I've tested this on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and the file manager automounts the images as expected.