Did something like this years and years ago. Took an old system and tossed in newer hardware. I had dual floppies and a Colorado 250MB tape backup that also used the floppy controller. I used a PCI Parallel port card as the GPIO. With some signal Diodes and relays I could control the pins of the drives and power. Same thing could be done with an Arduino and USB port.
Exactly! But I do consider using a USB GPIO thing (even an FTDI dongle would do) or the parallel port cheating - I’d really like to explore the cheap and hacky solutions :)
@@AndersNielsenAA you only talk about it. you did not actually do it. i click on this new video from a creator that I didn't know about. I thought I was going to see this done, and in action just by the title. i feel that I was mislead, that's why I commented the way I did. i did learn something new though. I didn't know motherboard manufacturers at that time did that to floppy controllers. I am intrigue by the disk image program that talks directly to the drive though. that could be a good video.
@@AndersNielsenAA reading the other comments. it does seem like you do some low level things though, which is cool. i didn't know you can use other controllers as gpio pins, I do wander a little bit on how you do that though...
Thanks for the feedback - I do try not to bait. This time I had to spend a little bit too long on the “why” before getting to the discussion on “how”. The good news is I got a bunch of good feedback and I think I’ll demo several ways of bit twiddling when I get back to this - and not just the usual “throw a Pico at it” :)
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Did something like this years and years ago. Took an old system and tossed in newer hardware. I had dual floppies and a Colorado 250MB tape backup that also used the floppy controller. I used a PCI Parallel port card as the GPIO. With some signal Diodes and relays I could control the pins of the drives and power. Same thing could be done with an Arduino and USB port.
Exactly! But I do consider using a USB GPIO thing (even an FTDI dongle would do) or the parallel port cheating - I’d really like to explore the cheap and hacky solutions :)
At 14:54, no I don't remember that. I'm fairly sure I wasn't there as I would've remembered the blue on that column.
Maybe not that gathering specifically :)
Hi Anders, nice video. My vote's on the 'floppy drive controller from scratch'! I'm subscribed for the hardware pr0n :-)
Thanks for the vote! 8-)
I also like the old one first. I recently bought an old Philips P3105 XT computer which can use a floppy drive.
Better see how fast I can whip up an FDC then :D
Option b with floppy drives
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mis leading pos.
Huh?
@@AndersNielsenAA you only talk about it. you did not actually do it. i click on this new video from a creator that I didn't know about. I thought I was going to see this done, and in action just by the title. i feel that I was mislead, that's why I commented the way I did. i did learn something new though. I didn't know motherboard manufacturers at that time did that to floppy controllers. I am intrigue by the disk image program that talks directly to the drive though. that could be a good video.
@@AndersNielsenAA reading the other comments. it does seem like you do some low level things though, which is cool. i didn't know you can use other controllers as gpio pins, I do wander a little bit on how you do that though...
Thanks for the feedback - I do try not to bait. This time I had to spend a little bit too long on the “why” before getting to the discussion on “how”.
The good news is I got a bunch of good feedback and I think I’ll demo several ways of bit twiddling when I get back to this - and not just the usual “throw a Pico at it” :)