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Building a floppy drive interface
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I'm looking for some docs about how PC/AT floppy interface works and how can I build a floppy drive interface to be attached to PC parallel port. I know how parallel port works, even built some circuits connected to it. My interests a pinout, levels (should be TTL), protocols, etc. I've been searching at epannorama.net but those docs just explains basically cabling. This is my hardware project to a college class. Can anybody please point me out to some good tecnical documentation about it? thanks a lot in advance. Lucas Brasilino |
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Previously Lucas Brasilino wrote:
Hi I'm looking for some docs about how PC/AT floppy interface works and how can I build a floppy drive interface to be attached to PC parallel port. I know how parallel port works, even built some circuits connected to it. My interests a pinout, levels (should be TTL), protocols, etc. I've been searching at epannorama.net but those docs just explains basically cabling. This is my hardware project to a college class. Can anybody please point me out to some good tecnical documentation about it? Best start by reading the docs of the controller chip. You should be able to get a discrete one. Some info he http://home.swipnet.se/~w-68269/wd_fdc/wd_fdc.htm on using a WD chip. I believe the original floppy controller from the AT is the NEC µPD765. You might want to google for it. It might be difficult to get these chips today, since for a long time they have been integrated into multi-I/O chips. I think you should be able to read/write/format with a directly connected high-speed microcontoller, such as a 33Mhz DS 87C520 WCL, but that would mean implementing the whole FDC in software. That could be rather messy and take long. I think your best approcha is tho first find out what chips you can actually get and then selet the one that needs the easiest interface logic and the least programming. Arno -- For email address: lastname AT tik DOT ee DOT ethz DOT ch GnuPG: ID:1E25338F FP:0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus |
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