[sdiy] Flash Drive with Floppy Interface?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

ASSI <Stromeko at Compuserve.DE> wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>is anybody aware of a Flash Drive that has a standard (PC/MFM) Floppy 
>Interface?  I'd like to retrofit the 3 1/2" drives in my synths 
>(notably the K5000 and the WAVE) before they go the way of the Dodo.  
>I'd prefer SD/MMC cards as the storage medium as I have a good number 
>of (not too big) cards of that format.  There would need to be a way to 
>switch between a number of floppy images on the card (without involving 
>a computer connection) and to preferrably direct any formatting 
>commands to a new image rather than killing off the one that happens to 
>be switched in.

Really interesting request, I'm interested too.  Perhaps an FPGA or CPLD project? 
uProcessor?  It doesn't seem that speed is a requirement, just compatibility with the
bus signals.  What would be very cool is if it could be made more or less universal
so that not only would it work to replace a diskette drive in a synth, but in other
equipment as well.  Heh, a USB port on it so you could put a set of images on a stick...


-- ScottG

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