self ejecting floppy?

**Computer_Chip** · April 25th, 2001, 07:21 PM

Is there any company that makes self ejecting floppy drives? (like a Macs drive). For a pc besides a superdisk drive?

**cc_penguin** · April 25th, 2001, 07:35 PM

I havent seen any....

3fingersalute · April 25th, 2001, 08:10 PM

No, I looked into this once before, and the only way to get this is by using an LS-120 (now replaced be LS-240 by Panasonic!)

**waldo** · April 25th, 2001, 08:18 PM

hmm... still searching...

Hey I can't find it! I can useually find anything.... I'll keep trying.

**Sowulo** · April 25th, 2001, 10:44 PM

Well there was this one time....Ooops! I thought I was in Jimmr's web site...

**paranoid** · April 26th, 2001, 01:12 AM

bar the LS-120, I never seen one.
pardon my bad mac knowledge, but can a mac FDD be used in a PC? is it the same? is this a stupid question?....

**Who Me** · April 26th, 2001, 03:08 AM

I've been wanting one for a while but haven't been able to find one

**ShadowWynd** · April 26th, 2001, 06:11 AM

No, a Mac and a PC FDD are not interchangeable. The Mac uses a different controller and wiring setup.

I would say though, anybody with too much time could make a self-ejecting floppy. Use the control lines from the second floppy (which no one ever uses anymore) to run a small motor to disengage the trigger and eject the diskette).

**AlienDyne** · April 26th, 2001, 07:45 AM

I've only seen the LS-120 ones doing that.

**LagMonster** · April 26th, 2001, 07:52 AM

I have never seen one. I don't even have a floppy drive installed on my computer anymore. I am sure some others do the same as me. If in the rarity I use a floppy I'll pop open the case and attatch it quick. (of course I'd power down first)

**AlienDyne** · April 26th, 2001, 07:56 AM

Hehe.. I still have, cause I'm too lazy to open the box when I need one!

**LagMonster** · April 26th, 2001, 08:09 AM

It started when I had a full tower case with an 18 inch cable to get to the FDD. It just didn't work. So that computer didn't have a floppy. Now I just don't use them. Its sorta habbit forming. I do have other computers on the network that have one. The only time I needed it was to install the Nic card drivers

**antonye** · April 26th, 2001, 08:16 AM

Same here ... don't really use a floppy these days as I just end up emailing files around. In fact, I'd probably have a hard time trying to find a floppy disk!

Come to think of it, now that all our floppy disks have been replaced by CDs/DVDs, I wonder what will replace these? Maybe the 'net is already starting to do that?

**Rellik** · April 26th, 2001, 08:40 AM

Probably any USB Floppy drive because Macs need to lock the Floppy when inserted. But who wants to pay 50+ bucks for a floppy drive?

LS-120 is the only one that I know of for internal drives however

**Outcoded** · April 26th, 2001, 10:39 AM

Going off the subject, my LPT zip drive does that, every time I reboot 95, really gets on my nerves, because then I have to get up and put it back again. It's a hard life.

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