writing a floppy port device

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From: hakimian%tek4
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 23:35

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I am in the process of writing a device driver for the floppy port. I have
a pretty good grasp on how to allocate the disk.resource and set up the
interrupts that I needs. What I am having trouble finding is a description
of how data is sent. I know how to start up the dma, what I don't know is
when the encoding to mfm or gcr is done. How can I send out a sync word?
Where is this documented? I have been looking in the hardware manual as well
as the RKM library and devices.

Any and all input will be appreciated.

Karl Hakimian
hakimian@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu

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