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Supply of Catweasel alike devices?
« on: October 03, 2013, 12:33:02 AM »
How is the availability of hardware to read physical floppy disks? ie like Catweasel etc.
 

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Re: Supply of Catweasel alike devices?
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2013, 04:29:31 AM »
Seems floppy on a USB cable is all the rage these days?

I hope the kryoflux.com is as programmable and capable as the Catweasel?

The main reason was to figure out if it would be worthwhile to make ones own or just do COTS.
 

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Re: Supply of Catweasel alike devices?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2013, 07:11:15 PM »
Catch, any development board with a GPIO connection can solve this too ;)
 

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Re: Supply of Catweasel alike devices?
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2013, 03:49:30 PM »
Guess drive select A/B and motor enable A/B is implemented then.
 

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Re: Supply of Catweasel alike devices?
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2013, 07:40:42 AM »
Otoh, that functionality can be empiricaly deduced because otherwise it wouldn't work at all .. ;)

But you can get away with wiring select and motor signals to a set level.
 

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Re: Supply of Catweasel alike devices?
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2013, 07:33:24 PM »
Quote from: JimDrew
CMD_READFLUX    = 0xA0                    ; command - read flux level
CMD_GETREADINFO    = 0xA1                    ; command - get info from last flux read
CMD_WRITEFLUX    = 0xA2                    ; command - write flux level

What does these commands do really?

Esp since flux levels (can) change every 1/500000 s.