UltraBay II Floppy Drive

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UltraBay II Floppy drive

This is the 3.5" floppy drive for the UltraBay II slot.

Features

  • 3.5"
  • attachable to parallel port

IBM Partnumbers

Linux Support

In case you have two floppy drives, the floppy drivers hardware autodetection will only find one.
You can force the floppy driver to use both of them by adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:

options floppy floppy=1,4,cmos

This gives you support for either external floppy or ultrabay floppy or both if you plug them in after boot time.

Also known (in IBM literature) as....

ThinkPad's supporting this drive