Oh my, when searching about for what comes after DevOps, I found this on the Register. The floppy disk driver in Linux is being marked as Orphaned.
20190731/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/30/torvalds_floppy/
The main problem with USB floppy disk drives is that they are basically only practical for reading 1.44 MB floppy disks. If you want to read floppy disks of any format, you’re going to need some more tools, tips, and tricks. Here are a few that were mentioned in the comments of the article.
One of the old methods was to use the Catweasel custom floppy disk controller that could read a multitude of different floppy disk formats in the same 3.5 inch floppy disk drive. Unfortunately, it is discontinued and really only works with pretty old PCs. A more modern solution that is similar in design is KryoFlux, but it has some questionable licensing terms.
20190731/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KryoFlux
Here’s a a pretty nifty trick you can do for reading Amiga floppy disks:
That’s not entirely true; Disk2FDI can do it on a standard PC with two floppy drives.
The magic trick? Drive selection is external to the FDC and data is transferred prior to checking for CRC errors, so reformat the floppy in one drive to have really long sectors, start reading one of those really long sectors, change the selected drive behind the controller’s back, drink in the Amiga data. Subject to possibly having to try a few times to get a serendipitously-timed switch re: clock versus data bits.
Wow, now that’s quite a trick. I must admit, it’s a pity that we are slowly loosing the older generation who were more versed in those kinds of hardware tricks. Nowadays, software is pretty much the only thing that modern developers understand, and the inner workings of hardware is unbenowest to them.