Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk
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Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk
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#2Drat, I was hoping it was like a cassette tape adapter and would work in unmodified disk drives. Do floppy disks advertise their own size, or do systems assume that they can only hold 1.44mb? You might need special driver support I guess, which takes some fun away.
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#3If he could get the drive eject button to unmount the SD card, this would actually be more functional that current tech.
It bugs me that unmounting SD cards / USB drives and physically removing it are two seperate actions. It's a regression in usability after floppies and CD-ROMs.
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#4If he could get the drive eject button to unmount the SD card, this would actually be more functional that current tech. It bugs me that unmounting SD cards / USB drives and physically removing it are two seperate actions. It's a regression in usability after floppies and CD-ROMs.
What a great point.
I am so paranoid now about removing USB drives after I accidentally removed one while it was still writing to the drive (which I had no idea because there was no LED on the drive) and it bricked the entire device.
I generally wait until my computer has shutdown completely now before removing any important drives, just to be sure.
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#5Although this is not a useful "innovation", I had fun while watching it.
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#6Drat, I was hoping it was like a cassette tape adapter and would work in unmodified disk drives. Do floppy disks advertise their own size, or do systems assume that they can only hold 1.44mb? You might need special driver support I guess, which takes some fun away.
I expected something like the 3.5mm-to-cassette adapters that exist for older cars with tape decks.
http://www.amazon.com/Car-Cassette-Adapter-iPod-Sirius/dp/B0...
Re: Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk
#7If he could get the drive eject button to unmount the SD card, this would actually be more functional that current tech. It bugs me that unmounting SD cards / USB drives and physically removing it are two seperate actions. It's a regression in usability after floppies and CD-ROMs.
I remember when Apple had the soft-eject floppy drives that would only eject after the disk was properly unmounted, and then they even did soft-eject PCMCIA slots. I was surprised when their SD card slots weren't soft-eject.
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#8Ah, disappointing. I was expecting some giant array of them all running in unison and making beautiful "music". Sorta like the radiohead hardware hobbyist video https://youtu.be/pmfHHLfbjNQ
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#9Drat, I was hoping it was like a cassette tape adapter and would work in unmodified disk drives. Do floppy disks advertise their own size, or do systems assume that they can only hold 1.44mb? You might need special driver support I guess, which takes some fun away.
I expected something like the 3.5mm-to-cassette adapters that exist for older cars with tape decks. http://www.amazon.com/Car-Cassette-Adapter-iPod-Sirius/dp/B0...
Or SmartMedia flash cards that actually did work in a standard 3.5" floppy drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartMedia
edit: Didn't realize they even made MemoryStick and SD Card floppy adapters. So this already existed, sort of! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath
Re: Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk
#10Drat, I was hoping it was like a cassette tape adapter and would work in unmodified disk drives. Do floppy disks advertise their own size, or do systems assume that they can only hold 1.44mb? You might need special driver support I guess, which takes some fun away.
I expected something like the 3.5mm-to-cassette adapters that exist for older cars with tape decks. http://www.amazon.com/Car-Cassette-Adapter-iPod-Sirius/dp/B0...
Man total flashback. I didn't even remember those existed, though I think I might have had one now that I think about it...