On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:54 AM emanuel stiebler <emu(a)e-bbes.com> wrote:
On 2023-05-24 05:26, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 5:29 AM Fred Cisin via
cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Last time that I tried to research it, I found
that there had once been an
external drive in which the USB and controller werenot integrated with the
Alas
some spoilsport has removed the numbers from them. One (14 pins)
is probably a TTL buffer to drive the disk drive signals. The other
(still an SMD dual-in-line package but closer pin pitch than the SOIC
of the other chip) is presumably a USB floppy controller. When I have
time I'll probe things and see if I can figure it out.
Some of the USB<->Floppy drives used the SMSC USB97CFDC like chips.
Which basically was an 8051, USB and a 765 FDC in a chip ...
Unfortunately the data sheets for that series say that said chips come
in a 100 pin PQFP package. This things has a lot few pins and only on
2 sides of the package. So not that.
-tony