Plug in the GreaseWeazle to your computer’s USB port.Follow the instructions on GreaseWeazle setup and software setup guide.Attach the data cable to the floppy drive and the GreaseWeazle.Attach the power cable to a power supply.Set up your physical floppy drive to be used with GreaseWeazle.This means you need to work with floppy disk images. Instead, you have to load and write whole images to the drive in one go. Your floppy drive won’t show up in a command prompt like they did back in the old DOS days or like modern USB plug-in 3.5″ drives. USB A to B cable (commonly known as a “USB printer cable”) to connect the GreaseWeazle to your PC.Either using a PC power supply with a Molex connector, or a stand-alone power supply with Molex connector Power supply with Molex connectors for the floppy drive.Floppy disk cable – CablesOnline has a universal floppy cable Item # FF-002 for $9.99.Even better, GreaseWeazle can use these older DOS drives to read and write Apple, Amiga, ST, and a host of other formats. Floppy drive – any 5.25″, 3.5″ or 8″ floppy that uses the Shugart interface.Plug in 3.5″, 5.25″ and 8″ drives and read/write the flux data for hordes of different formats.
You can supposedly even use your old DOS floppy drive to read/write images for other platforms. Best yet, it only cost $31 Canadian and is one of the more capable solutions.
I, however, picked up the GreaseWeazle and read some of my old 5.25″ disks. There are solutions out there, but they can easily run $100 or more. Have you wanted to read and write data off your old 5.25″ floppy disks with a modern computer? Or how about reading/writing floppies for Apple II, Amiga, ST, or a host of other systems? Or maybe even hooking up a 8″ floppy? It is possible!
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