5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
5:01 p.m.
Has anyone ever actually successfully hooked an
8" drive to a PC
controller and gotten it to work? If so, who is that person?
Yes, I have. The catch (for you) is that it was the second disk
controller in a PC, and I didn't use the BIOS to drive it at all. I
'bashed the bare metal' from turbo pascal.
Reading my source code, I used a value of 3 for the step rate,
corresponding to a 12ms step rate. I seem to send 0x3F to the disk
controller (high nybble = step rate, low nybble = head unload time).
You're welcome to the soruvce code I mentioned (it reads PERQ
'interchange' disks) if you want it.
-tony