Does a 5.25 floppy drive work on a laptop with xFloppy?

[Andrew]

I have an old laptop with Win98. Is there any way to connect a PC compatible 5.25 inch floppy drive to a laptop and use xFloppy to write and read X68k disk images?

I've heard that external 5.25 floppy drives do exist for PC which can be connected via parallel or serial port. For example:
http://www.stairwaytohell.com/img/wanted_qtecexternalfloppy.jpg

It would be great if that would work with xFloppy because I don't want to keep an old PC tower just to write X68k disk images. It's a waste of space imo.