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 < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 7:07 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < > [email protected]> 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 >
