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That's a 5.25" inch floppy drive.. not a real floppy drive, to me.

90's kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Edit: Thanks @alberto_ol, link fixed.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The OP is a 3.5 inch floppy drive, I don't think I ever saw a 5.25 inch drive for Amiga.

I remember some people used to day 3.5 inch floppies "aren't floppy", but it was just the case that was more rigid than the prior formats; the actual rust-on-plastic was still "floppy", opposed to a hard drive platter that is rigid.

Yeah, you are correct! I was confused, somehow I thought it was a 5-1/4" drive until I came back to it this morning.

I'm glad this has been downvoted, I even appreciate if it got flagged to death, because it was a dumb mistake. Please accept my apologies for the noise.

I think there is a missing "." in your link. The correct link should be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

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