> >Have you looked at using SmartMedia and a 1.44 floppy
> adaptor?  The adaptor
> >at least is relatively inexpensive.

> I've not used one, but I'd be extremely surprised if it actually
> emulated the floppy format to the extent that you could boot from it -
> I suspect it comes with a driver to talk to the interface via the
> floppy head using its own protocol, with the head held in a fixed
> position.

Confession - neither have I.  But a friend of mine who has been extolling
their virtues was waxing lyrical about the ability to put them into any
machine going (WinX, Linux etc.) - with no mention of drivers.

Peter

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