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I've been seeing floppy adapters for flash memory for almost as long as "digital film" has existed, but never had one to toy around with (I don't have any flash memory devices) but I may soo have a reason to get one even without a flash device. You see, as a collector, I plan on buying a SWCDX2 for my SNES (Super WildCard DX2 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System), and it loads backed up games onto the SNES via floppy disc or it's own special "DiskDual" add-on. The DiskDual is VERY expensive, and really all it is is a parallel port CD-ROM/Hard drive bay. It's not really worth it, but I have a VERY large library of SNES titles and many of them take more than one floppy. Not only would it take a long time to transfer to a regular floppy, but it would be too much work converting & splitting every game I want to load.
A 128MB flash-memory floppy disk would come in VERY handy for this purpose, but compatibility issues bug me.
First of all, I have no idea how a PC "sees" them. I know there are many types, but how do they generally operate? Does it somehow appear as a 128MB floppy? I doubt that, as many motherboard floppy controllers probably don't support anything more than a standard 2.88MB floppy. Does it only allow you to access the data in 1.44MB chunks? If so, how would you switch to the next 1.44MB? Does it require drivers? If so, that would defeat the purpose of an adapter that works in a legacy peripheral wouldn't it? I think the FlashPath adapters from Delkin are like this
I guess I'm looking for users with different types to see what's best.
Sony MemoryStick users?
SecureDigital users?
SmartMedia users?
MultiMediaCard users?
Just wondering how it works for each of you.
A 128MB flash-memory floppy disk would come in VERY handy for this purpose, but compatibility issues bug me.
First of all, I have no idea how a PC "sees" them. I know there are many types, but how do they generally operate? Does it somehow appear as a 128MB floppy? I doubt that, as many motherboard floppy controllers probably don't support anything more than a standard 2.88MB floppy. Does it only allow you to access the data in 1.44MB chunks? If so, how would you switch to the next 1.44MB? Does it require drivers? If so, that would defeat the purpose of an adapter that works in a legacy peripheral wouldn't it? I think the FlashPath adapters from Delkin are like this
I guess I'm looking for users with different types to see what's best.
Sony MemoryStick users?
SecureDigital users?
SmartMedia users?
MultiMediaCard users?
Just wondering how it works for each of you.
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