Date   : Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:47:35 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Omniflop

Phil Blundell wrote:
> (In theory it would be possible for a USB floppy drive to provide
> vendor-specific commands to give you lower-level control of the sector
> layout.  I've no idea whether any of them actually do, but the
> controller IC datasheets would presumably reveal the truth.)

IIRC there's a way of doing just that via the SCSI-interfaced Torch Manta 
floppy controllers, so it should indeed be possible via a USB layer I would 
have thought (if the manufacturer supports it).