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Re: [avr-gcc-list] Off topic question - 3 1/2 PC Floppy drive
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Iztok Zupet |
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Re: [avr-gcc-list] Off topic question - 3 1/2 PC Floppy drive |
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Sun, 30 Jun 2002 09:26:56 +0200 |
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Hi,
You can't tie an ATMega directly, You need a floppy controller chip, which
can be opreated without DMA (like the old FD1791). The data You get/put to
the floppy drive there is FM-MFM modulated and the controller does the
modulation/demodulation!!!
But You could tie the ATMega to an IDE bus device (IDE floppy-not cheap or
CompactFlash-cheap device for instance) using only 8 bit data bus width. They
all operate fine in so called PIO mode.
Regard
iz
On Sunday 30 June 2002 02:57, address@hidden wrote:
> I really appreciate your help however I still want to use
> the floppy drive+ 3 1/2 floppy so based on what I understand
> I should use an ATmega + enough RAM to read a sector wich is 512 bytes
> length. Besides I would like to find out the standard for how to perform
> basic floppy operations such as read, write or move the head using
> the signals on the 34-pin connector. Does anyone know of a
> white paper or specification of some kind detailing this
> in the form of timing diagrams etc.?
>
> Javier.
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[avr-gcc-list] Off topic question - 3 1/2 PC Floppy drive, hamilton, 2002/07/04
Re: [avr-gcc-list] Off topic question - 3 1/2 PC Floppy drive, JChavez, 2002/07/04