That’s the big point of hard sectored floppies. Posted in Retrocomputing Tagged floppy, libusb, PSoC, usb Post navigation We had to wonder if has thought about 8-inch floppies. This certainly is more user-friendly than the last method we looked at. comments that you really need a real drive to test your writing with so you don’t write things only you can read back. While writing is possible, it appears there is more work that needs to happen to make it reliable. All the heavy lifting occurs on the PC, which means it should be pretty easy to analyze and decode new formats. The firmware only measures the time between flux transitions and sends them to the attached PC. wants to change processors because of this, but if he does, he’ll miss the PSoC function blocks, we are guessing. However, you will need a Windows box of some sort to build the Cypress firmware because the Cypress tools won’t work anywhere else. The software uses libusb and is known to work on Linux and Windows with Cygwin. He’s also offered to entertain other formats if you are willing to loan him a disk. The author,, is looking for Commodore 1541 and Apple CLV disks to borrow so he can get those working. However, being open source, it could do more. It can also read and write Brother word processor disks. Currently, the firmware only supports read only access to IBM standard disks and Acorn DFS/ADFS disks. The device uses a $15 Cypress development board and just some wiring (along with a 3.5 or 5.25 floppy drive, of course). That is, except for Flux Engine, an open source USB floppy drive. While these do exist, they typically won’t read oddball formats. You might think you beat the system just by having a USB floppy drive. Do you have a ZIP drive? Do you have a computer that it will work with? Floppies are problem too. Data on a variety of tapes and disks that were once common, is now trapped on media due to lack of hardware to read it. It is a bit of a paradox that we are storing more and more information digitally, yet every year more and more of it is becoming harder to access.
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