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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!

  • @the16bitgamer@lemmy.world
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    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