Vector Graphic S-100 system notes including floppy drives. Tandon TM100 series drives - 96 or 100TPI. advice about Cromemco 16FDC S-100 floppy controllers. facts about damaged and dirty, moldy diskettes, finding "good" brands, cleaning diskettes. M2FM / MMFM double-density diskette format and bit-encoding. reading "old" disks on PC's, special hardware. floppy disk hardware and manuals I sell. a Micropolis Z80-based floppy controller for Futuredata. My additional Web pages about floppy drives and diskettes: format: short index to address gap in track. drive belts for Shugart 800 and other floppy drives. Single sided vs double sided and "flippy". High density diskette media NOT same as SD, DD. Single density diskette media same as double density. 3-inch, 3.25 inch, 2.5 inch and other alternative floppy drives. 300kbps operation of 1.2MB 5.25" drives. 3.5" drives: changing rotation speed (300 360 RPM), replacing 8-inch. Replacing 5.25 inch or 8-inch drives with 3.5 inch or 5.25 inch drives. double density diskettes with single-density on track 00. Read problems on old diskettes: dust, mold (mould), coatings and cleaning. IBM 5.25-inch floppy drives and HD (1.2M) operation. Track 43 write current change, 8-inch drives. Facts on hard sectored floppy drives and diskettes. standard documents for floppy disk drives. Michael Larabel reports on the Phoronix Web site that the Linux 5.7 kernel has some substantial code addedĪnd deleted to the floppy driver, some for ARM support, by Willy Tarreau. I'm askingįor someone to step up to the platter, and provide software support for the Linux floppy hardware-controller I'm not asking for complaints or "I remember when"s. While Linux driver development is way outside my wheelhouse, floppy drives are not! Read a bit more about this (non)development and of course Web-search Like and reported the situation on July 26th and 27th. Apparently, general knowledge of this depreciation wasn't distributed until social outlets 
"The reader doesn't work any more though, so I guess it's time to stepĭown from this super-prestigious role :p and mark floppy.c as Orphaned.". July 18, 2019: At, as part of Linux maintenance on various drivers, Jiri Kosina posted she was no longer able to maintain the floppy.c driver due to lack Headline: Linux "orphans" floppy-drive controller drivers
We offer copies for a per page fee.Ĭheck the Shugart 800/801 floppy disk drive documents there for tech notes on the design and use of early floppy drives and media. Original floppy drive manuals and OEM tech notes. For more info or for reuse or questions, email me via this Web link.įor more info on floppy disk drives, diskette and controller info, check our list of Quoted material here may be copyrighted by the respective authors of that material and I use it with permission. Tech information on floppy disks drives and mediaĬontents copyright Herb Johnson 2022.
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