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How many OS assumptions does it break to have a massively oversized capacity on a floppy drive? Or is it just using 1.44mb of a multi-GB SD card?
by Macha 5y ago
How many OS assumptions does it break to have a massively oversized capacity on a floppy drive?
Or is it just using 1.44mb of a multi-GB SD card?
- kjs3 5y agoOften, these present as multiple floppy sized chunks for exactly the reason you cite. I don't know about the Sony described, but the Gotek I have has a little front panel that let's you select a numerical floppy unit that presents as a: or whatever.
- xxpor 5y agoNeutron star density
- snek_case 5y agoI'm assuming if it's a floppy emulator it just has floppy density, but you can emulate an IDE hard drive as well.
- Macha 5y agoOh, I may have been misunderstanding the parent comment but it sounded like they were saying it was an adapter that let you put flash memory devices of some sort into a regular floppy drive.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoThere are exactly such devices.
- jaclaz 5y agoNo, it is not a ATA/IDE (nor SATA) device, it is intended as a "direct replacement" for floppy drives (on embroidering machines, music instruments, CNC and similar), so it uses the 34 floppy connection (on PC-like hardware). There is - besides Gotek - an alternative which is open source and (if one wants to) DIY, the HxC, a few different possibilities: http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
- jaclaz 5y agoThe GoTEK (or similar) use several floppy images (each one 1.44 MB) and you can select manually which one to use. I think it depends on the model, but should be able to select among up to 100 or 1000 such images.