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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