On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:45:20 -0600, you wrote:

>Your best bet would be to use a floppy controller and interface to that.
>The FDC interface on a 3.5" drive is directly descended from that on an =
8"
>drive...  that's not a nice parallel data stream, or even serial.  It's =
a
>serial *bit* stream from which you need to do all the deformatting,
>decoding, etc.  In fact, I believe it may just be the FM/MFM data =
straight
>off the read amps, which means clock recovery and all.
>
>Dale
>--
>"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
>curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
>          - Arnold Edinborough
>
>
>On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Timothy Stranex wrote:
>
>> I would like to interface a 3 1/2" floppy drive to a pic but am unable
>> to find any information on how to transfer the data between them. All
>> I've been able to find is a pinout of the connector.
..and the PIC doesn't have enough RAM to hold a floppy sector, so you
would need some external RAM as well.=20

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