USB floppy drive on an S-10?

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  • November 22, 2010 at 10:17 pm #6252
    KenC
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    Has anyone ever tried to attach a USB floppy to an S-10 (or other WTOS terminal)?

    I haven’t started experimenting yet (waiting on delivery of the drive), but it looks rather dubious from reading the docs.

    November 23, 2010 at 7:57 am #19432
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    I did once but just for fun, it seams to work fine just not something for daily use 🙂

    November 24, 2010 at 4:44 pm #19442
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    Floppy drives are not supported under WTOS at all. This will not work.
    Not sure how alie did this running without helpers like TCX USB.

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    November 29, 2010 at 4:54 pm #19456
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    Experimental evidence says you are correct, ConfGen. I could not get the USB floppy drive that I have working at all. I’d be very interested to hear how aLiE got one working.

    November 30, 2010 at 7:54 pm #19464
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    Maybe with TCX USB.

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    November 24, 2011 at 9:34 pm #21418
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    The tests we run are old, and includes testing an external floppy drive. The device works on e.g. an S50 (Wyse Linux 6), LED lights up and disk mounts as A: and it can be mounted into a Citrix session, On the converted WTOS client (i.e. an S10) and any other WTOS box, it simply does not respond (no power up). So the customer will have to accept that the ancient 3,5″ is now officially history (I hope).

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