floppy tape-drive: an idea

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Hello,
       About a week or so ago, there was a thread about using a
floppy tapedrive with a 3b1 and it was mentioned that hardware
mods for a second floppy drive would be necessary in order to do
this.  Wouldn't it be just as feasible to either:

  a. Disconnect the present floppy drive and hook up a tape drive
     in its place; seems that this solution would be about the
     simplest way to go for regular backups.  In the event of a
     hard-disc failure, the floppy drive could be reconnected for
     the reinstallation of the foundation set, etc. and then the
     tape drive could be reconnected for the restoration of
     everything else and for future backups.

   or.....

   b. Similar to 'a' above, only instead of having to physically
      connect and disconnect the floppy and tape drive, build some
      sort of bouncless switching circuit to switch between the
      tape and floppy and install a switch somewhere on the cabinet
      so that the change would only require the 'flip of a switch'.

Has anyone tried doing either of the above?  


   

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