Comment on Low-level floppy operations with native floppy controller on older PC with modern Linux distribution

oshu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I only have a 3"1/2 USB drive and I can’t seem to do any low-level stuff with it. Not in Linux anyway. I haven’t tried in Windows because I don’t use Windows.

  But I did find this PC and it has a native PC floppy controller, a 3"1/2 drive and, more importantly, a 5"1/4 drive too. In fact, I saved the PC from the landfill to scavenge the 5"1/4 drive and ended up keeping the PC and giving it another lease on live solely for its floppy controller.

  Thing are just easier with the real McCoy. Hence my spending a couple hours making this work.

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  • oshu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its fun and rewarding to figure stuff out and awesome to write it up and share with others.

    I’ve had good results with ufiformat and usb floppies, but indeed only 3.5"

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