Alternative Hardware Design for Floppy Interface

On 22 Oct 2007 at 18:11, Jules Richardson wrote: If it's an IEEE 1284-conforming port, then it can execute at least 2M transfers/second, which should be sufficient for most 5.25" DD and SD floppies. If you want to get more exotic, add some RAM (like the Catweasel) or a FIFO. Still no big deal. Then get a CW MK4 - Jens has left all of the Amiga stuff off of it. The MK3 was interesting in that it was a "flippy" card--you could plug it into a PCI bus or whatever the Amiga used for a bus. As I said, it's not rocket science and even a USB catweasel reader can probably be constructed easily with off-the-shelf components. If a standard is needed, the only things I can really think of are the meaning of the high-order bit (in the CW, it's the presence of the index signal) and the clock frequency used (the CW, depending on model, uses two or three fairly odd ones--probably related to the SID accommodation). Cheers, Chuck