Reply to post: Re: Not the USB kind

He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

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Re: Not the USB kind

As you mention, a USB floppy drive won't work. Nor isone an adequate replacement for a floppy drive on a real floppy controller. The USB floppy protocol doesn't provide access to the raw disk data, making useless for recovering data from anything other than PC format floppies.

That matters to me as I have lots of old music equipment and computers that I've upgraded with HxC floppy emulators. However, once upgraded I still need to get the raw images from the old floppies

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