No one's made an open source hard drive firmware yet, right?

[foone@digipres.club]

No one's made an open source hard drive firmware yet, right?

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@[email protected] be the change you want to be in the world foone. use a harddrive as a keyboard by spinning the platters manually and aligning the heads just right for the key you want. Kinda like a rotary phone but with 4-6 independent layers

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@foone is "reverse engineer and slap GPL label on top" open source? https://github.com/brouhaha/wd100x

[foone@digipres.club]

@nina_kali_nina that might be close enough, thanks!

[foone@digipres.club]

I saw a thing about how hard drives have run as slow as 1200 RPM, but I was disappointed to learn that was only old mainframe drives and not something IDE/SATA that I can plug into my modern system

[foone@digipres.club]

I also thought those are rookie numbers. I want to build a hard drive that spins at 6 RPM

[lillyherself@mastodon.social]

@foone What would the advantage be?

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@LillyHerself @foone You must be new here.

[fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com]

@foone now I’m looking at this and thinking what if it was a 78 RPM multi platter storage device. Switching the head from one platter to the next has a pretty long seek time.

https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/system/media_attachments/files/113/625/684/419/342/130/original/5bc4fa9c9df7a248.jpeg

https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/system/media_attachments/files/113/625/684/688/637/488/original/d2596ccd11064dfb.jpeg

[nuxi@mastodon.sdf.org]

@fozztexx @foone

Data 45s were briefly a thing

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on-vinyl-flexi-discs-zx-spectrum

[foone@digipres.club]

@nuxi @fozztexx I've got a couple but I've never tried reading them in. I think I'd need to set up my s100 machine first

[nuxi@mastodon.sdf.org]

@foone @fozztexx seems overly straightforward. There's gotta be a way to photograph the grooves and train a neural net to read it OCR-style or something.

[foone@digipres.club]

@nuxi @fozztexx there's laser vinyl players that kinda do this, but they always have the problem that any dust or grime on the disc gets picked up

[csepp@merveilles.town]

@foone Spin the HDD's case in the opposite direction, then the net RPM can be anything you want.

[foone@digipres.club]

@csepp I've already got a todo for a spinning SATA mount with a slip ring

[lillyherself@mastodon.social]

@indigoparadox @foone I am a long term fan of Foone's, even though I don't always understand everything they are up to!

[foone@digipres.club]

@LillyHerself @indigoparadox same, tbh