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

[Scott Gravenhorst]

karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
>Well, building one for yourself don't need any license!

Here, I agree.

>And does the patent holder has economic means to defend any intrusions?

Here, I disagree.

That's a telling ethical statement.  So we should only obey patent and copyright law if the
owner can take us to court?  Mind you, that could happen to you and I don't think you'd be
so easy going about it.

>Besides, is the idea unique to the basic standards of engineering really?

Yeah...  Karl Dalen, JD...

>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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