Floppy Disk Driver with Mount-Tools
Windows CE .NET does not provide the ability to access floppy disks. We fill this gap by providing a driver that supports 1.44MB disks in a single floppy drive. Floppy drives are installed in almost every personal computer and therefore provide an easy and common way to exchange smaller amounts of data between a WindowsCE device and a PC. Many existing WindowsCE solutions offer a PCMCIA slot which you can use to mount ATA cards. These ATA cards are much more expensive than floppy disks and furthermore lot of PC's don't have a builtin PCMCIA slot.
Performance Values
Read-/write performance of 10kB test file:
Write |
4,302 sec |
2,325 kB/sec |
Read |
1,708 sec |
5,855kB/sec |
Read-/write performance of 100kB test file:
Write |
50,039 sec |
1,998 kB/sec |
Read |
4,448 sec |
22,480 kB/sec |
Restrictions
- The driver supports only one floppy drive configured as master.
- The driver only supports 1.44” floppy disks.
- The driver does not support low-level formatting of floppy disks.
- The driver needs to access the drive every 5 seconds if no disk is inserted.
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