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DeathStar

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Registered: 2020-04-25

Posts: 20

USB Floppy Drive

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know of any good quality USB 3.5 floppy drives that work out of box with Arch Linux?

I would like to use it to install some old dos games on Dosbox,

Thanks,

Last edited by DeathStar (2020-11-27 00:54:08)

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 630

Re: USB Floppy Drive

Don't know about a floppy drive but maybe you find them here..

https://www.myabandonware.com/browse/platform/dos/

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,919

Re: USB Floppy Drive

I have one of these https://www.freecom.com/product/usb-flo … ive-22767/ .

Used it for windows xp install / troubleshooting around 2009.
Also used it approx 5 years ago to copy useful things from my 400+ floppy collection to an archlinux volume

Last time I used it was in 2018 to copy original floppies of a dos game to hdd for a friend.
(the game still runs fine in dosbox).

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