FC5025 5.25" floppy disk controller

[RobertB]

     The FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller is now available. Device Side Data's FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller plugs into a USB port and enables you to attach a 5.25" floppy drive. With the FC5025 and its
included software, you can read Apple, Atari, Commodore, MS-DOS, North Star, and TI disks.
     For more information and to order, see the web site:

           http://www.deviceside.com

Before ordering, please note the limitations described on the website. In particular, the FC5025 is read-only; it can read floppies, but it can't write to them.

           Truly,
           Robert Bernardo
           Fresno Commodore User Group
           http://videocam.net.au/fcug
           The Other Group of Amigoids
           http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
           Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
           http://www.sccaners.org

[SmallCleverDinosaur]

Also consider the price. $55.25 is quite a lot considering what you get. If your goal is to transfer Commodore discs to your PC there are many other way better solutions that gets you much more functionality for your money.

But it's a fun gadget though

Re: FC5025 5.25" floppy disk controller

[airship]

Interesting that the required TEAC 5.25" model FD55GFR drive is now selling for between $7 and $150 on the surplus market, depending on where you look.

[RobertB]

Interesting that the required TEAC 5.25" model FD55GFR drive is now selling for between $7 and $150...

Without looking at the model number of the drive, I pulled a bunch of those out of old PCs.  They're sitting in storage 3 hours away.

I was always told to hang on to
those hard-to-find 5 1/4' PC drives,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

[Andrew Wiskow]

Interesting that the required TEAC 5.25" model FD55GFR drive is now selling for between $7 and $150 on the surplus market, depending on where you look.

I think you may have mis-read that... The website says, "It has been tested to work well with the TEAC FD-55GFR drive and should also work with most other 5.25" drives."

It also says that the controller can only be used to read from disks; it can't write to disks.  So I guess you can make d64 images of 1541 floppies, but you can't write 1541 floppies from d64 images.  Writing to floppies from disk images is what I use my XE1541 cable for much more often than writing images of floppies.  I think I'll stick with my setup. 

[Payton Byrd]

Interesting that the required TEAC 5.25" model FD55GFR drive is now selling for between $7 and $150 on the surplus market, depending on where you look.

I think you may have mis-read that... The website says, "It has been tested to work well with the TEAC FD-55GFR drive and should also work with most other 5.25" drives."

It also says that the controller can only be used to read from disks; it can't write to disks.  So I guess you can make d64 images of 1541 floppies, but you can't write 1541 floppies from d64 images.  Writing to floppies from disk images is what I use my XE1541 cable for much more often than writing images of floppies.  I think I'll stick with my setup. 

I gotta agree with Andrew here.  If it could WRITE floppies I'd be all over this thing.