PCI floppy controller

[Warner Losh]

I'd gotten the impression that there was some angst in its community of
users
over something. I can't find now where I'd gotten that impression, though.
Mine
works great, and I've had no issues with it. They've been helpful when I've
reported
trouble I had using it, but it was pilot error on my part and they helped
me understand
what the reports and output of the tools were actually telling me.

Warner

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 12:04 AM Tom Hunter <ccth6600 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>