8 Sep
2023
8 Sep
'23
5:08 p.m.
On 9/8/23 15:20, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
pretty well and BIOS/ancient OSes not at all! 😅
It would still be handy to have a USB device that operates as a "normal"
fully functional FDC.
It would make it possible to add floppies to devices without them,
and/or add more or different floppies to devices that do have them.
The basic software for it could be in flash RAM in the same USB device.
I use a STM32F4 MCU for my floppy work (and my tape work also). Half a
meg of program flash and 192KB of SRAM on-chip, running at 168MHz. But
my interface is strictly by image file. The USB connection is strictly
for file transfer and terminal operation. One does a whole disk at a
time, since the bulk storage interface is SD Card. Currently, I'm
limited to 32GB there.
I'm interested in recovering data, not running games.
--Chuck