[Coco] new high density controller
Mike Pepe
lamune at doki-doki.net
Wed Aug 9 18:28:56 EDT 2006
Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Humm acording to the data sheet that's what the /ENMF & 5/8 pins are
> for, they allow you to run the chip at 2MHz, and internally divide the
> clock by 2.
>
> The passives required are only really a couple of pots, a couple of
> resistors and a diode.
>
The values for the components that drive the pump pin are different for
the two data rates.
> Though the calibration of the WD chip isn't that hard, it does require a
> scope :)
Exactly
> Though I guess you would need more glue logic, unless you use a CPLD or
> something like that.
Maybe less. It depends on how I do it.
> Yeah that was a weekness of Tandy's interface, though to be fair that is
> down to the extra logic, all the FDC chips used in the CoCo & Dragon are
> capaple already of supporting 4 DS drives, it's just that in the RS-DOS
> case the external logic only supports 3 :(
Well, that can be corrected now at least.
> I'll have to go take a look at the Intel's data sheet, got a pointer ?
I'll have to make it available I guess, I'm not sure how I found it in
the first place!
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