[Coco] usb thumb drive to floppy emulator

[Arthur Flexser]

Perhaps it could be made to work under OS-9, with an appropriate driver for
reading and writing 512-byte sector floppies?

Art


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net>wrote:

> Afraid answer isn't good.  Yes I tried one just because I had one. These
> are designed for PC formats, such as 720K and 1.44M, so 80 tracks, 9 or 18
> sectors.  I figured hey, it might work, since a coco expects only 35 tracks
> and 18 sectors.  But the failure point seems to be:  a coco expects 256
> byte sectors, and this thing is hard-wired to 512 byte sectors, so... never
> got it to work.
>
> (real slick on an old 486 PC I had though :)
>
> -RobertH
>
>
> On 3/26/2014 1:14 PM, xnaron wrote:
>
>> This looks pretty interesting.  It emulates a floppy drive and stores the
>> data on a usb drive.  You make thousands of partitions for each floppy on
>> the usb.  Then you select the partition number on the front of the device
>> to "load" it into the drive.  It's only $22.  Has anyone ever tried one
>> with a coco?
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/SFR1M44-U100-USB-Floppy-Drive-
>> Emulator-for-Industrial-Control-Equipment-w-1-44MB-/
>> 331159028746?pt=US_Floppy_Zip_Jaz_Drives&hash=item4d1a9dc40a
>>
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