Stealthing a floppy...sort of

[BeeQuewl]

So im sure this has been covered somewhere before...

Ive got this AV box ive been working on for 3 months or so...and the only mod i cant figure out how to accomplish is stealthing the floppy, while still having it accessible...

any ideas?

i have had some wacky thoughts on this one but everything seems to be "too far out there"...

some ideas i had:

1. modding the floppy drive to fit inside the tray eject mechanism of a cdrom (so the whole thing ejects)

2. Modding a mac floppy drive to work on a PC. since mac floppy drives have a motorized auto-eject mechanism...but then not having the OS to eject it....and will it work with a PC? this is the way i wanted to go for a long time....

anyone got any thoughts?

[ArcticFox]

How about putting it behind a door? You could make a little flap that would hide it's ugly slowness.

BTW: Do you really need a floppy?

[tonyromen]

I posted something like this a while back, I just ended up buying a black oem floppy. (I have a black case.)


-t

[thekingofpain]

How bout a USB floppy drive?---plug it in when/if you need it---plus since most oem machines are starting to eliminate floppys you could use it "later on" as well...

[BeeQuewl]

yeah...i thought about the door idea...i think im gonna grab a mac floppy drive and rig it to eject and stealth it with a door...or something...well see...must research some more....