Why is my Sony USB Floppy (A:) drive merged into my Samsung SSD?

Ztruker said:

You spiked my curiosity. Why do you have a floppy drive? What do you use it for. I know this doesn't help with your problem but it will help my curiosity

A: For moving, consolidating then archiving old company files from floppy to DVD or Blu-Ray.

Ztruker said:

What is the floppy plugged into?

A: This Amazon Basics USB 2.0 Hub via this USB 2.0 adapter connected directly to my motherboard (see PC Specs).

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What is more...I sort of have a bone to pick with people just coming into the tech industry (a.k.a "Gen Z hipsters").
I am now 35 years old, and I am by no means a "young buc", but I am by no means considered an "Oldie Goldie" (a.k.a "Boomer") either. Yet the younger generation walks into the [figurative] room struting like they own the place, throwing out all best practices, standards, and known and trusted reliable technology, such as fax modems to even relatively young technology such as Blu-Ray drives, claiming they are "outdated" and "obsolete." I want to say, they are "foolish" and "ignorant!" I'm glad not every decision-maker listens to these morons, or else the PlayStation V and Xbox Series X would only be able to stream games, looking horrible in graphical fidelity, while simutaneously hogging not only all the household bandwidth, but also all the neighborhoods bandwidth too! The younger generation needs to chill, and aquire some humility. They're just coming into the world, changing stuff in the name of "progressiveness", knowing little to nothing about what they are doing. Ugh!!

And, they need to stay off your lawn.

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Sorry, I had to remove the original and repost this redacted version due to security reasons.
And this forum doesn't let you modify your post after a set amount of time.

JamesAndersonJr said:

This is truly a bizarre head-scratcher!
Why is my Sony USB Floppy (A:) drive merged into my Samsung SSD?

Try3 said:

OK, I can now also see that in the Samsung application the left-hand end of the SSD shows... that the A:\ drive is also shown as a partition of the SSD. So, the OP means that this volume disappears when the floppy is disconnected.

That would appear to be a specific bug in Samsung Magician itself. I'm willing to bet that it never occurred to Samsung's software developers to test it with a floppy drive attached to the system.

A search finds that there is at least one other user who has both a floppy drive and Samsung Magician.

....if one or more USB floppy drives are plugged in ALL drives show as 'Not Supported' including the officially supported drives.

https://twitter.com/kibmcz/status/1243141614383460352