Looking for a pin-compatible solid-state floppy drive replacement

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I am looking for a device which can replace a floppy drive (3.5") with a
solid-state memory and be pin-compatible so I can just plug it into the
floppy ribbon cable and replace the floppy drive with the solid-state-based
memory.

The reason for this is I have a logic analyzer with 2 floppy drives which
hold the system code. These floppies are giving CRC errors now and I would
like to replace once and for all the floppy drives with Flash or EPROM
memory. The replacement must be pin compatible with the floppy drive at the
ribbon cable interface of course. These are 720K, 3.5" drives. The logic
analyzer is an HP 16500A. Size is not important.

Please reply to this newsgroup.

Thank you

 

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I am looking for a device which can replace a floppy drive (3.5") with a
solid-state memory and be pin-compatible so I can just plug it into the
floppy ribbon cable and replace the floppy drive with the solid-state-based
memory.

I know you can get these with IDE and SCSI interfaces. If you want
capacities similar to modern IDE and SCSI rotating-platter drives, they
are out-of-sight expensive. They are usually used in lieu of rotating-
platter hard drives in embedded applications where the hard drive can't
stand the mechanical stress. An example is
http://www.m-systems.com/site/en-US/Products/IDESCSIFFD/IDESCSIFFD .

You can get readers for SmartMedia cards that are the shape of a 3.5"
disk. You plug the SmartMedia card into the reader, then put the reader
into the 3.5" drive like a floppy. I don't know if these support 720K
drives. The Delkin DDFLSPTH2AD is one such reader and there are
probably many others.

Standard disclaimers apply; I don't get money from any of the companies
mentioned.

Matt Roberds