Re: TI-H: New floppy comments


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Re: TI-H: New floppy comments




>Okay, after closer examination I have decided the USB idea would not be as
>easy as I had though.  I tried looking up some information about the regular
>everyday NEC interface for floppy drives and I haven't been able to come up
>with much except the pin-out and that does very little good.  What I need to
>find out is what hardware (controller chip etc.) is this hooked up to and
>what protocol the rest of the mother board on a computer uses to communicate
>with it.  From the looks of the pin out on the drive it seems to be a sort
>of serial interface and I'm wondering if it would be possible to build some
>sort of link either to it directly or using the same chip that is found on
>the motherboard so that I could hook a calc up without using an extra
>microcontroller and do most of the grunt work in software.  Any ideas where
>to get such enlightenment?

Find information on MFM or ST-571.  Same as floppy.



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