Emax

Hi Rob, 

> Im looking to buy a new floppy drive for my emax SE
> you mentioned a TEAC FD235 will work -
> are you refering to - Teac Floppy Drive 235HF ?

Yes.

> can one be found in black? and are they an easy install?

Yes, they can be bought in black. With the current move to colorful PC
cases, they even became quite common, so a local computer dealer might carry
them. Or just do a search for "TEAC Black" in your local eBay... here are
the most common countries' cateories:

  http://listings.ebay.com/plistings/list/all/category44957/index.html
  http://listings.ebay.co.uk/pool1/plistings/list/all/category169
  http://listings.ebay.de/pool2/plistings/list/all/category169

They turn up every now and then, but are normally a bit more expensive than
the standard PC color ones. BTW, if you're careful, you can simply
disassemble a sperm-white FD235HF and spray-paint the front black or any
other color (just make sure to take out the clear plastic bit where the LED
sits :-)

The Samsung drive, AFAIR, needs a bit of soldering to convert it to ID 0,
but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Bye,

  Hermann