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Device Side Data's
FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller plugs into any computer's USB port and
enables you to attach a 5.25" floppy drive. Even if your computer has no
built-in floppy controller, the FC5025 lets you read those old disks. And
it's not just for IBM PC disks – it also understands formats used by Apple,
Atari, Commodore and TI, among others.
Website: deviceside.com
Order at: shop.deviceside.com
Contact: deviceside@deviceside.com
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PC
FC5025 USB 5.25 FLOPPY CONTROLLER
Requirements:
The FC5025 connects
to any computer's USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 port. Compatible software is required;
see below for system requirements for the included software.
The FC5025 is
USB powered. Power from USB runs only the FC5025 itself; you must supply
power to the drive mechanism separately, such as from your computer's power
supply.
The FC5025 is
sold as a controller board only without a drive mechanism. It has been
tested to work well with the TEAC FD-55GFR drive and should also work with
most other PC-style 5.25" drives. (Note: the included software expects
a 1.2M drive, even when reading 360k disks.)
Limitations
The FC5025 is
read-only. It cannot write to floppies.
The FC5025 may
be unable to read disks that are damaged
or copy-protected.
The FC5025 is
intended for 5.25" disks only, not 3.5" or 8"
disks.
Most PC-style
drives can't read the second side of "flippy"
disks
Supporting
following type of disk:
Apple DOS 3.2
(13-sector)
Apple DOS 3.3
(16-sector)
Apple ProDOS
Atari 810
Calcomp Vistagraphics
4500
Commodore 1541
Kaypro 2 CP/M
2.2
Kaypro 4 CP/M
2.2
MS-DOS
Motorola VersaDOS
North Star MDS-A-D
PMC MicroMate
Tandy Color Computer
Disk BASIC
TI-99/4A |
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WEBSITE
CASES:
Shapeways
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PC
KRYOFLUX USB 5.25 FLOPPY CONTROLLER
Compatible with USB 2.0 (high-speed).
Powered by USB interface (approx. 500mA).
Drive requires its own power (typical floppy drive power requirement at
spin-up > 500mA).
Shugart (with extensions) drive interface.
34-pin dual-row header connector.
Works with all major 3.5" and 5.25"
drives
Works well with selected 3" (e.g. Amstrad
FDI-1) drives.
Also works with 8" (e.g. Shugart 851;
might require additional adapter) drives; other types of drives and media
currently under investigation.
Connection of two drives supported
using a dual floppy cable, one can be accessed at a time.
Host software is currently Windows
(XP and up, 32 and 64-bit flavours), Mac OS X and Linux.
Easy to use Graphical User Interface
(including raw data visualisation):
Supported
Formats
KryoFlux stream files
CT Raw
Generic FM
Generic MFM (IMA, IMG)
Atari 8-bit (XFD, both FM and MFM)
AmigaDOS (ADF)
Amiga DiskSpare
Apple DOS 3.2
Apple DOS 3.3+ (including DSK with
interleave)
Apple DOS 400K/800K (CLV)
Emu
Emu II
DEC RX01
DEC RX02
CBM DOS (D64, with optional error map)
CBM GCR image (G64)
Various custom formats for CBM
MicroProse
RapidLok
Datasoft
Vorpal
V-MAX!
Teque
TDP
Big Five
OziSoft
Single and double sided aswell as single
(SD), double (DD) and high density (HD) are supported. |
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Final
Specifications:
| CPU: |
40 MIPS (PIC24HJ256GP210A) |
| RAM: |
512K STATIC,
55ns |
| USB: |
FTDI 240X FIFO,
Full Speed |
| SERIAL: |
Dual RS232 ports,
one full or half duplex, one half duplex |
| FLOPPY: |
34 pin standard
PC floppy interface, fully
bi-directional |
| SD-CARD: |
Micro SD card
slot (1GB or larger cards) |
| RESOLUTION: |
25ns |
| POWER: |
USB can power
3.5" drive directly, external power \ supply required for 5.25" drives |
| MISC.: |
Future expansion
port for IEC interface, future cycle exact 1541 drive emulator, possible
SD2IEC. |
| SOFTWARE: |
disk copier/imager
and analyzer software
compatible with
Win95-Win8.1-Win10 |
CASES
Webside: thingiverse.com
Webside: Shapeways.com |
SUPERCARD
PRO USB 3.5 / 5.25 FLOPPY CONTROLLER
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NEWS
STORE
FORUM:
Besides being a disk copier that
can be driven by anything from a Timex Sinclair to a desktop PC, this device
also has the ability to mimic an original disk drive. So, you could use
original Commodore 1541/1571 formatted disks, Amiga disks, etc. with your
PC (and emulators). You just need to supply a PC type disk drive.
The hardware consists of a 40MIPs PIC
micro (24HJ256GP210A), 512K of static RAM, a FTDI USB FIFO/RS232 interface,
and misc. support circuitry. There is enough RAM on board to store an entire
1541 disk in GCR format, so one of the possible things to have is an auto-load
of the entire disk into RAM (which would take less than 14 seconds) when
a disk change is detected. There is also plenty of memory for multiple
flux reads and compares for the write splice(s) and such.
The SuperCard Pro hardware was changed
to make the 34 pin floppy port fully bi-directional. This means that it
can (and will in the future) emulate a floppy drive similar to the HxC
device, but will use flux level images generated by SuperCard Pro and stored
on the SD-card. This would let you replace an existing 3.5" or 5.25" floppy
drive with the SuperCard Pro and it would act exactly like a real floppy
drive.
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