On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 17:53, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Yup. I've still got one of the FlashPath units after having taken one > apart and destroyed it in the process. > > There;s a small electromagnet (coil) located where it can be coupled to > the drive head. The rest is pretty straightforward--an Atmel MCU, some > RAM and random logic, along with the driver/sense to the electromagnet. > > There's no way for it to determine what cylinder the floppy drive is > positioned to, nor any way for it to determine when the Index position > is being passed, which is why it requires a driver on the host to operate.
Aha! Interesting. So it's not actually able to be read as if it were a diskette? It's sort of hijacking the drive as an alternative I/O medium, pulsing data at a stationary drive head, ignoring rotation and track positioning? -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
