Actually I'm more intested by the 3.5" to USB adapter rather than 3.5" to 5"1/4 ^^
(By the way, there are many floppy cables that provide both connectors)

Deksor wrote:

Actually I'm more intested by the 3.5" to USB adapter rather than 3.5" to 5"1/4 ^^
(By the way, there are many floppy cables that provide both connectors)

It's likely that the USB adapter *is* the cable, i.e., it does not provide an opportunity to use your own cable.

I updated my original post to include a picture of the USB adapter. I need something to convert the 34-pin "cable" shown to allow it to plug into a 5.25" floppy drive. Thanks.

Wouldn't be hard to make your own - all you'd need is a short length of old floppy cable with a suitable 34 pin female edge connector at one end and a 34-pin male IDC ribbon connector at the other.

Well sure this might not be something I can make myself, but perhaps you can buy it new ?

Such adapters do exist, but you can not connect a 5.25" disk drive via USB. It simply won't work.

Seems like a missed opportunity, if it doesn't play ball with 5.25" drives. Of course, I used to use a 5.25" floppy drive with my Windows 7 system, but its motherboard still had a floppy connector.

1) USB 5.25" drives have existed, but they're extremely rare. ( http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html )

2) Generally external USB 3.5" chipsets don't support 5.25" drives, but I can't speak to this one as I haven't seen it before. So you probably won't be able to use it with a 5.25" drive.

But if you do, let us know where you got it so we can buy them out of stock!

derSammler wrote:

Such adapters do exist, but you can not connect a 5.25" disk drive via USB. It simply won't work.

Where can I find one so that I can give it a try? Thanks.

Theoretically you could create a coupler using 2.54mm header pins so you can just plug an old FDD cable into it

They can be cut down to the correct length using wire cutters and the blank pin can be pulled out with pliers, might be worth addig a couple of cable ties to hold it all together. The main question would be whether one of the USB adapters would support a 5.25 drive, I've looked at them in the past when I've thought about adding an internal 3.5" drive to my modern computer.

I've seen adapters to connect 3,5" fdd to 5,25" fdd ribbon cable (in fact I have at least 5 of them), but the other way around - nope (it doesn't mean they don't exist of course).

Maybe someone could make a universal USB fdd controller out of an arduino such as the arduino leonardo ? (One could push the thing even further maybe by making it a more permissive controller to backup protected games/write to Amiga/mac floppys)

Deksor wrote:

Maybe someone could make a universal USB fdd controller out of an arduino such as the arduino leonardo ? (One could push the thing even further maybe by making it a more permissive controller to backup protected games/write to Amiga/mac floppys)

There is such controller already and it's called KryoFlux.
https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/product … &products_id=28

Yeah but that one is quite expensive, I thought about a cheaper and free alternative.

Edit maybe doing this with a raspberry pi zero would be cheaper and need less low level programming ? (at least for testing proposes)