SV: Re: [sdiy] Flash Drive with Floppy Interface?

[karl dalen]

Well, building one for yourself don't need any license!
And does the patent holder has economic means to defend any intrusions?
Besides, is the idea unique to the basic standards of engineering really?

KD 

--- Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> skrev:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:29:38PM +0200, ASSI wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Unfortunatly there is a patent for just such a beast.  I ran into this while
> building a flash drive replacement for the Ensoniq mirage.  I still plan to
> finish it one day, but after contacting the patent holder and finding out
> the general unwillingness of a license agreement, I lost steam.
> 
> One simple way around the patent *and* a way thats actually easier to
> implement, is to replace the drive back at the drive controller IC, but I
> got sidetracked once I took that path.
> 
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