YAY! floppy disk interfacing part6, a floppy flux milestone! part 7
whew! so, turns out it was an underspec'ed power supply. so now we know, 500mA is not enough for a floppy drive you really need 1A. but with that out of the way, we were able to cleanly read all 160 tracks of flux from a floppy disk! this particular disk is one that our friend hid in that place that one time, and we've been waiting to be able to see what's on it... will we be able to extract the sectors and discover what secrets lie within??!? Adafruit Floppy is a project to make a flexible, full-stack, open source hardware/software device for reading, archiving, accessing and duplicating…
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