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> >
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on interfacing a floppy disk drive to a PIC? I
> > > know it seems absurd, but there are LOTS of applications for such an
> >  interface.
> > >
> >
> > Not absurd at all. In fact I was thinking of how to interface a parallel
> > ZIP drive to a PIC. Imagine having 100 megabytes of removable storage!!!
>
> Well, all the source is available, look in any slackware linux mirror, and
> you'll find that the zip drive is supported, it's basically a scsi type
> interface on the printer port.

I'm aware. I initiated the Linux parallel ZIP project by showing that the
ZIP drive worked under Linux's DOS emulator. Grant Guenther then used the
I/O traces from the emulator to determine the data transfer patterns between
the driver and the drive. This was used to write the driver.

I have the code for both the kernel driver and the user level driver that
Grant wrote. What I'm really interested in is whether or not a fast PIC can
emulate an EPP port. If so then it's possible to get the transfer rate up
to about 200K per second which is adequate for just about any task.

BAJ