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Article #7221Floppy disk controllers- Suggestions Wanted
From: Michael C Miller
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 18:08
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 18:08
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Hello, I am now involved in a design project that requires the use of a floppy disk controller IC. I am building a dedicated/stand-alone formatter/copier and I was wondering if any of you kind folks have info on latest available chips. I have data on some of the older Western Digital chips but I want to know if there is some thing newer and more exciting that I should look into. Does anyone have a toll free number to WD support? Can anyone point me towards an optimum source of info for the IBM-PC 360K diskette format/standard? I have a good deal of experience with the CPM disks and have used the on chip features of the '2797 to meet various comatibility difficulties, so I'm sure that it will work for this application, but again, I wanna ask you\ experts ;-). Ideally I need to be able to upgrade to control for HD Diskettes but for now 360K is just fine. I'm grateful for any info in advance..... thanks.... michael -- ################################################################################ < sans => mcmiller@uokmax.UUCP or mcmiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu > < '..this one goes up to eleven. Its ONE louder.' >
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!uokmax!mcmiller From: mcmiller@uokmax.uucp (Michael C Miller) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Floppy disk controllers- Suggestions Wanted Message-ID: <1990Sep13.180820.7993@uokmax.uucp> Date: 13 Sep 90 18:08:20 GMT Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 31