[COFF] Speaking of floppy controllers,

[Arthur Krewat]

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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