IDE Floppy Disk + Debian: anything to consider?
IDE Floppy Disk + Debian: anything to consider?
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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!
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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.
Still need to read the data which means them a fucking awful choice for 2023. I'll even go so far as to posit that the magnetic layer, which was fragile as fuck in the 90s, on any surviving hardware is going to be extremely problematic if even serviceable. If you even manage to get a few kilobytes of playlist data to write, which i doubt, you still need to be able to scan and read it back, which I also doubt would work.
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.
You should probably learn how to read.
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.