Need driver for: Caleb UHC 144 floppy drive on XP Pro SP2

[olamoree]

Hi,

These high precision floppy drives are going in the $3 range with two 144MB disks... as most outdated stuff does, but besides playing special Caleb 144MB disks, they play the standard 1.44MB disks also.  It is an IDE drive, altho a 3 1/2 standard size and I would like to get it going.  It shows up fine on the boot screen but without the driver, doesn't play.  Any help appreciated.  Thanks.

[patio]

With the wealth of knowledge on the machine in question, the OS and what happened prior to this it would be guesswork at best.

[Dias de verano]

Spelling the name correctly (it's UHD not UHC) would help too.

[olamoree]

Sorry for the Typo...

Anybody think that there may be a driver for a similar IDE device that may get it to play?  I am open to trying most anything... but I am not a driver writer...

Thanks again.

[street1 (RIP)]

XP should have the drivers and auto install.

[olamoree]

Sorry Street, no XP drivers show up.  It DOES show up on the Post for the IDE drive chains as Caleb UHD 144 but nothing to drive it.  Surely with so many of these sold and still for sale, there should be a driver around.  Thanks for your reply.

[Dias de verano]

This company produced its so-called wonder drive in 1999 but it never really flew. It was dead long before XP came along, so there won't be any drivers

A quote I found on a Google Groups thread from 2002

This thing sucks.  I'm having a LOT of trouble simply copying files to a
1.44mb floppy, I can't boot off it, and I can't even format the thing.  I'm
running Windows XP.  Are there drivers for it?

And the reply...

The Caleb never flew well .  It was supposed to be "better than the LS120" ; but
who could tell..  if you couldn't buy it -- how could you try it!

The local CompUSA had the media for over two years but could never get drives.
I bought almost all their media for $.05 each on closeout ;  it was worth that
for 3.5" jewel cases alone. The UHD-144 media is actually as good as archive
level  standard floppies.. if used as a standard floppy.

Just consider it another piece of abandoned hardware .