> It's quite possible to adapt PS/2 floppies to
the common PC interface. A
> friend of mine converted them for Amiga use, and the difference between the
> Amiga and PC interfaces are negligible.
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Tony Duell
wrote:
A few weeks back somebody (not on the list) kindly
gave me a PS/2
hardware techref. It's nowhere near as good as the original techrefs (no
schematics, no ROM source code), but it does contain a lot of useful
information on things like the Microchannel bus.
Anyway, it also contains the pinout of the PS/2 floppy drive. I can look
it up if you need it, but it's approximately the standard floppy
interface on 34 of the pins (in the normal order) with power on the
remaining ones, I think.
THAT part is trivial.
What is a little harder is that a 2.8M drive (It is NOT 2.88 for anybody
who knows how to multiply) uses a data transfer rate of about 1 Meg bits
per second - twice that of the 1.4M. Although, in theory, it would be
"possible" to build a drive that spun at 150RPM to be able to use the
slower data transfer rate that 1.4M drives are accustomed to. (It was
done with 1.2M 5.25" in order to add high density to XT controllers!)
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