Gareth:

Seems to me that an off-the-shelf FDD controller chip might be the easiest way
 to implement your design. Of course, there will be less expensive ways to
 interface a PIC to a floppy drive. Here is an example of a FDD controller IC
 from National Semiconductor:

http://www.national.com/pf/PC/PC8477B.html

Good luck with your design.

Dave Sorlien

Evgeni Nikolov wrote:

> Hi Gareth,
>
> Well I think that some of questions are disappearing just because nobody has
 the answer, or because all of the folks are discussing other subjects. I had
 such an experience these days with a question about I2C FM/IF & PLL receiver
 (no news no bones - as we say in Bulgaria)
>
> Evgeni
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Gareth McClean [SMTP:gmcclean@STBNI.CO.UK]
> Sent:   Friday, January 16, 1998 7:52 PM
> To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:        PIC to Floppy
>
> Let me first apologise if this message appears twice on the list, but it
> looks like my previous message has disappeared into thin air.
>
> I'm interested to find anyone who has interfaced a PIC to a standard
> floppy drive for data storage. I don't care if the format of the disc is
> non-standard. What I am interested in, is if someone has example code to
> Read & Write data (here we go on - MFM encoding :-)). My intention is to
> produce a low cost, high capacity storage device connected to an I2C bus
> (for personal use).
>
> Thanks in advance Gareth
>
> Project & Operations Manager, STB Systems Inc.
> Tel: +44 1232 258402, Fax +44 1232 319970, WWW Page: www.stb.com
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