Alternative Hardware Design for Floppy Interface

e.stiebler wrote: I think I've mentioned my USB floppy drive controller here before... At the moment the design is 90% done - I just need to add the I/O buffers to the schematic and route the PCB. For the latter part, I'll probably need to rig up some form of KiCAD-to-FreeRouting (via SPECCTRA DSN) interface. If I can get the PCB done reasonably quickly (say before noon tomorrow) I'll cook up a prototype. Of course, to achieve that, I'll have to get off my lazy butt and probably stop listening to the CDs I just bought... Current target price is ?50 (or about $100 US at current exchange rates). Of course, if you want portable, you get a Linksys NSLU2 and bolt the FDC onto that via a USB port. Add a pendrive and a 5V power supply (and whatever your floppy drive wants) and you've got a portable one-touch floppy disc reader. Better to use a laptop, though, then you can analyse the image and make sure it decodes properly. -- Phil. | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny classiccmp at philpem.me.uk | (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | (")_(") world domination.