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What is "flux"? It's all over the source code.
It’s the actual raw magnetic field changes encoded in the platter.

It matters because lots of floppy setups had “anti copying” setups which played tricks on readers, or where degradation over time means the peaks and valleys of 1/0 can become less pronounced.

Thus getting at the core flux can help with retrieval and fixing

The magnetic variations on the diskette are called flux in this context.
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Or FluxEngine.

http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/

Just stick a pin header directly on an off the shelf fpga dev board and that's the hardware done.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aDKggy7UAHsyLj717

Although half of the awsomeness is that lack of hardware, I did make up some PCBs to adapt FluxEngine to various 8" floppies. Mostly not tested yet. I have some of each of the different kinds of drives but haven't finished the project of fabricating nice drive enclosures and power supply hookups, and of course getting the drives to work at all.

github.com/bkw777/FluxEngine_Kit

Use a greaseweazle often, absolutely necessary kit for archiving esoteric data from old floppies. Finding a working drive is often the hardest task.