PCI floppy controller

[Tom Hunter]

I am curious about your comment about "kryoflux going south".
I did not hear about any problems. Could you please elaborate?
I got mine about 2 or 3 years ago and it did everything I needed at the
time, but haven't used it since.

Thanks
Tom


On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 9:19 AM Warner Losh via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> 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
>