10 Mar
2020
10 Mar
'20
4:32 a.m.
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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