PCI floppy controller

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 7:07 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> As another person with a desire to be able to read/write/create
> disks of different sizes and formats I have found this interesting.
>
> So the question, then....
>
> How hard would it be to make a floppy disk interface using an Arduino
> or even RasberryPi?  If you could do that the choices of interface
> to a PC opens up quite a bit.  It would never be like having a floppy
> hanging off the PC, but then none of the formats I am interested in
> are grounded in the PC anyway and utilities would need to be written
> to access them.
>
> comments?
>

Isn't that what Greaseweasel  and similar do? I have a kyroflux that I use
to read floppies on my macbook. It can write as well and understands a ton
of formats. Greaseweasel is more available and supported (I got my kyroflux
before things went south, so wouldn't recommend others get one these
days).

Warner