the best time to do win32 development is when microsoft's entire cloud has shit the bed
gotta pull out my visual studio 6 MSDN CD because the online stuff keeps timing out
and lets see if the internet archive has WinObj, because sysinternals is not responding

I'm just trying to read sectors off a floppy drive that's not mounted because it doesn't have a FAT12 filesystem!

surely this is an everyday occurrence in windows 11, why is this so hard?

ah-ha!

r"\\.\GLOBALROOT\Device\Floppy0"

I'm benchmarking how long it takes to read a floppy disk, for my video player. test one is calling read(512) 2880 times
305 seconds, that's five minutes.
My video is 252s/floppy, so that's sub-realtime. NOT GOOD
@foone might be faster to read an entire track?
@gloriouscow oh certainly. I'm just trying to experimentally find the sweet spot for this specific USB floppy drive