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Yeah, I want to make use of an IDE floppy drive, which will need to use a SATA adaptor to hook up to the server. I’ll probably be using a Debian-based container, and I’ll need to automatically read the contents of the disk in some way.
I’m kinda assuming this is actually viable, and that I can work along the basic process of using an off-the-shelf IDE-SATA adapter, give it a mount point in the system, then monitor that directory.
I’m still fairly new to Linux, so I’m not aware of all the quirks and astrices that often come up, especially when wanting to do something like this in 2023.
For the curious, I’m building a centralised music system that will serve multiple speakers, including RF. I’ll be managing the music and play lists via whichever modern music server seems the most appropriate, but I thought it would be really neat to use floppy disks as a physical way of selecting playlist, but not exclusively.
All the disks would contain are small ID tokens that represent the playlist on the digital system. The software will monitor the drive, and when a new token is identified, it will simply trigger the playlist to start, presumably via an API call.
Completely pointless, but I like tactile shit and the nostalgia factor!
Do yourself a favor and just use a USB floppy drive 👍
From one perspective, it should work; from another I never thought about how SATA/IDE adapters exactly work in this regard. Would any old one work, or most, or (almost) none at all?
Just to add this idea, I’ve used internal floppy drives with USB connection in the past, to attach in systems that don’t have an old style floppy connector.
P.S.: Love the idea! I’m also a great fan of haptic/physical interfaces.
I’ve tried using a floppy on arch recently using a usb and a usb adapter with an original drive.
It works rather well, but it’s seen as a root drive. So long as you can give yourself root access it’s all good.
On that note you should get one of those internal usb 2 to female usb headers as it can allow you access if there isn’t a free usb port available
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They are not storing music on the floppys, only playlist identifiers and they want their system to listen on floppy insert events and launch a playlist when the matching floppy is inserted.
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Completely pointless
Holy moley - OP knows and acknowledges as much in the last sentence. They’re doing something for the fun of it. Lighten up.
How old are you? Whiney old-timers fucking suck. And they love to voice their shit opinions at full volume. You all would be better off doing what you want vs listening to this cranky old fuck bitch about how life doesn’t allow fun.
…see how you sound? Everyone actually hates people who say braindead shit akin to ‘my way is the only right way, any other way is stupid’. Nobody asked for your shitty opinion piece, get the fuck off the stage.
Dude is trying to enjoy technology, and you want to shit all over it. What an awful way to go about life.
