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From: gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Subject: [COFF] Speaking of floppy controllers,
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:18:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf55fce6-476e-1b6f-66c6-1fb1b5895bae@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)

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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.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-09 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-09 21:18 gtaylor [this message]
2020-03-09 22:06 ` drb
2020-03-09 22:32 ` krewat
2020-03-09 22:49 ` gtaylor
2020-03-12 19:30   ` krewat
2020-03-09 23:49 ` imp
2020-03-18 20:03 ` gtaylor

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