floppr disk drive to microcontroller

Nov 18, 2006 5 Replies

hi all,



please , i want to interface a floppy disk drive to a pic microcontroller as a part of a project to analyse the data on the disk could anyone help me by the hardware required to this interface? also the suitable style of software?



thanks for your help



hi all,

please , i want to interface a floppy disk drive to a pic microcontroller as a part of a project to analyse the data on the disk could anyone help me by the hardware required to this interface? also the suitable style of software?

thanks for your help

Is there a full moon?

On a sunny day (Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:51:48 GMT) it happened "Homer J Simpson" wrote in :

I dunno, but the floppies are round. You just have to take them out of the ... and watch that spring.

Let's not forget that there was a long thread about this a few months ago, though on actual floppy drives rather than floppr drives.

Michael

Yes - buy a PC and a PIC programmer - the PIC goes in the programmer, the flash memory goes in the USB and your floppr goes in the floppr drive.

Brendan Gillatt brendan {at} brendan \\removethis// gillatt {dot} co {dot} uk http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk PGP Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6E265E61

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