Post #2649503
2022-03-01 11:43 UTC
@patagona@chaos.social the compatibility comes both sides – from the view of the operating system, a USB floppy is the same as any other USB flash drive, and they're using the same protocol 🙂
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@manawyrm@chaos.social 2023-03-10 14:20
@daniel_bohrer@chaos.social @patagona@chaos.social While USB floppy drives are still classified as "mass storage class" devices, they actually need a different set of commands to work, as specified in the USB Floppy Interface (UFI) spec: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usbmass-ufi10.pdf Floppies also usually were formatted as FAT12, which is pretty unusual these days and wouldn't be expected on normal devices.