From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [COFF] Speaking of floppy controllers,
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 18:32:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <699cbc2d-31eb-dcc1-95e1-193df7463c83@kilonet.net> (raw)
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Off the top of my head, what floppies are you reading? Are they already
normal "PC" format, or some other systems? And if so, are they
compatible (read-wise) with what you have?
There are adapters for the various connections of a edge-card floppy
drive interface, and the 3.5" floppy interface (dual-inline?), it's
directly electronically compatible I believe.
But, as Dennis Boone says in another email about formats, the USB
adapter might cause issues with non-MS/DOS or Windows floppies just
because it might only deal with a limited number of configurations,
track and sector wise.
art k.
On 3/9/2020 5:18 PM, Grant Taylor via COFF wrote:
> On 3/8/20 9:39 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>> floppy controller supports the full range of crazy that once roamed
>> the earth
>
> Does anyone have any knee jerk reaction to the idea of putting a 5¼"
> floppy drive on a USB-to-Floppy (nominally 3½") adapter?
>
> Do I want to avoid tilting at this windmill?
>
> Am I better off installing the 5¼" floppy inside the computer and
> connecting directly to the motherboard?
>
> I'm only wanting to pull files off of 5¼" disks. At most I'll want to
> dd the disks to an image.
>
> That being said, I wonder if I should also be collecting any different
> types of images. (This may mean mobo instead of USB.)
>
> Thank you for any pro-tips that you can provide.
>
>
>
>
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2020-03-09 21:18 gtaylor
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2020-03-09 22:49 ` gtaylor
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