Hi Guys, I found a strange cdrom drive - sony cdu33a-81 - it looks like it has proprietary SONY interface (floppy connector instead of hdd). Question is, do I need special controller for it? Any ideas how to make it connected / workarounds if there are no special controllers around me?

liqmat, thanks for the hint I will go there. By the way - I wanted to send a pm to you, but I am blocked on this forum to send PMs - I can not sent anything to anyone. In terms of retro - I am mostly interested in something very rare and weird. So I keep that for me, and I will share here what I …

hi guys, I have some retro hw I dont need - is there any place on this forum to advertise?

DX4 - wow, where you get this article? 😀 nice! thanks! so it means my idea of usage fdd extension ribbon and connect anywhere to free connector of my existing fdd ribbon which is already hosting the 5.25 and 3.5 should work... GREAT!

IOMEGA TAPE250 is not seen in bios or os. It has no letter assigned. I need to have dedicated sw to run to interop with iomega. This is how it works. My issue is if there will be any limit on the ribbon cable. I have double-connector (two sections) ribbon - one section is used by me for 3.5 (on the …

what about second ide (hdd+floppy) controller? wont work? I have simmilar issue - I have floppy 3.5 & 5.25, and I have QIC80 IOMEGA TAPE 250 and dont know how to have all 3 drives working.

anyone, pls?

Hi Guys, I am new here. I need help from you, hope this is the place I will get it. I have ALPS DC544C cdrom changer. I would like to make it alive, but... the caddy is missing. Here you can find some photos of it. https://comp-muzei.ucoz.ru/blog/alps_dc544c/2012-09-17-157 Anyone can help with …