On 13 Jan 2011 at 1:34, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Then I started wondering... am I over-engineering
this? Would waiting
for a couple of full disc rotations be enough to reliably generate a
READY signal?
A couple of one-shots work fine--I've also used an 8-pin
microcontroller--extremely simple and very stable. You could even
use a 6-pin uC.
Have a look at the schematics of any 8" drive for examples of one-
shot ready circuits.
--Chuck