Hi everyone,
I found this forum when searching for information on replacing a floppy drive in our newly acquired Fadal VMC 8030. I believe the machine is from the late 90's. I'm not a machinist myself. I'm the company IT guy and have been asked to look into this.
The guys that use the machine have reported intermittent problems with the floppy drive on the VMC. Upon doing a bit of research, I found that there are USB alternatives. I will be running a RS232 connection from our main fabrication PC to the VMC, but we ideally want redundancy.
I have seen there are a few USB options. In particular, I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with the Floppy Drive -> USB conversion kits (see below link). My concern is since our VMC doesn't have any form of a conventional Windows operating system, this USB option may not be a plug-and-play solution like it's advertised.
Any thoughts or input is greatly appreciated!
Floppy to USB Upgrade Eliminate your need for 3 ½ floppies and 3 ½ disk drives!!!