Floppy drive for PowerBook 2400

I just got a PowerBook 2400c and I need some assistance trying to find the external floppy drive that originally came with it. I have tried eBay and doing a google search but can not find anything also where can I find the converter to covert the regular SCSI to the PowerBook SCSI connector because I have an external SCSI apple drive but no converter... help is greatly appreciated!
PowerBook G4 17" 1.67GHz, 500MHz Indigo iMac, 700MHz eMac, 500MHz PowerMac G4 (Sawtooth), PB 2400c   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

kpetree,
Is this the drive you have?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macintosh-External-SCSI-hard-drive-SCSI-cables_W0QQite mZ120088366617QQihZ002QQcategoryZ82629QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Do you have any SCSI cables?
Is the SCSI connector on the Apple drive a Centronics 50 pin?
You are also looking for the HDI-30 SCSI adapter for the 2400's SCSI port; this is a square adapter with 29 pins. There is also a 30-pin HDI-30 adapter that is for SCSI Disk Mode only.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=13611

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