double density diskettes with single-density on track 00.Read problems on old diskettes: dust, mold (mould), coatings and cleaning.IBM 5.25-inch floppy drives and HD (1.2M) operation.Track 43 write current change, 8-inch drives.
I'm askingįor someone to step up to the platter, and provide software support for the Linux floppy hardware-controller I'm not asking for complaints or "I remember when"s.
While Linux driver development is way outside my wheelhouse, floppy drives are not! Read a bit more about this (non)development and of course Web-search
Like and reported the situation on July 26th and 27th. Apparently, general knowledge of this depreciation wasn't distributed until social outlets "The reader doesn't work any more though, so I guess it's time to stepĭown from this super-prestigious role :p and mark floppy.c as Orphaned.". July 18, 2019: At, as part of Linux maintenance on various drivers, Jiri Kosina posted she was no longer able to maintain the floppy.c driver due to lack
Headline: Linux "orphans" floppy-drive controller drivers We offer copies for a per page fee.Ĭheck the Shugart 800/801 floppy disk drive documents there for tech notes on the design and use of early floppy drives and media.
Original floppy drive manuals and OEM tech notes. For more info or for reuse or questions, email me via this Web link.įor more info on floppy disk drives, diskette and controller info, check our list of Quoted material here may be copyrighted by the respective authors of that material and I use it with permission. The FDS is popular to a small community of hard core collectors who strive to collect every game for the limited system.Tech information on floppy disks drives and mediaĬontents copyright Herb Johnson 2022. The FDS never hit the US market and was short lived even in the original Japanese market. The Nintendo Famicom is the Japan local version of the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES here in the United States. The Famicom Disk System (FDS) is a floppy disk based hardware add-on for the Nintendo Famicom based on the Mitsumi Quick Disk. We will follow up with an article hopefully showing the FDS community new dev tools or better yet, prototype games! The few high level collectors I have been able to contact tell me they intend to dump the disks for the community before they are all locked up again for the next 25 years. Alternatively, the disks could simply be blank. Sources also say that this could be a totally different discovery of 17 FDS development disks with unknown data locked up for the last 25 years just waiting to be discovered by collectors. Originally, there were 19 disks in total with various prototypes including Aiden no Tsue, a step drill game and various development tools on these dumps.Ī dump is a copy of the data on the media (the floppy disk) that can then be read on a computer or original Nintendo hardware using special tools or an emulator program. Sources speculate this is the infamous Sunsoft dump of 2009 FDS development disks. It is speculated, high level collectors communicated using back channels to snap up the disks that routinely fetch north of $400 USD each on Yahoo Auctions Japan. Several collectors snapped up a handful and within the hour, only two are remaining at a slightly higher price than originally listed. Earlier today, an eBay auction listing the 17 white FDS development disks dropped on the popular auction site.