Re: TI-H: New floppy comments

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: New floppy comments
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:07:39 -0800
In-Reply-To: <001701c008b1$c84e9280$235494cc@cobra>
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


>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.

References:

TI-H: New floppy comments

From: "Philip Pesek" <me@philpesek.com>