From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 18:32:19 -0400 Subject: [COFF] Speaking of floppy controllers, In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <699cbc2d-31eb-dcc1-95e1-193df7463c83@kilonet.net> 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: