31 Oct
2006
31 Oct
'06
10:01 a.m.
On 31 Oct 2006 at 18:45, Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel wrote:
Am i correct in thinking that, given a custom FDC, i
could run a modern
1.44 floppy in FM mode, and at much lower data rates i.e. (say 50 KHz.) ?
I don't think there should be a problem with what you want to do. If
you wanted to run said drive significantly FASTER than the 500KHz
data rate, you might run into problems--but slower should be no
problem.
The low data rate yields all sorts of low-tech encoding
possibilities, since ISV and other issues don't matter as much at low
speeds. I can imagine that you could use a USART or even a UART with
a flipflop NRZ encoder and get very good results.
Cheers,
Chuck