11 Dec
2004
11 Dec
'04
10:30 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 01:20 -0500, Saquinn624(a)aol.com wrote:
It could be possible to hack together a similar
interface for floppies,
though (encapsulate over parallel port)
I think I kicked off a similar discussion a while back as I wanted to be
able to hook a floppy drive up to the parallel port to read / write raw
data and do all the processing in software (so I could read alien format
disks).
Problem was that the parallel port is way too slow for the data stream
needed for the floppy - so yes it could be done, but you need a
reasonably intelligent interface which buffers data at the track level
though and oversamples the data stream on reading.
cheers
Jules