mstechca
New Member
For all of you who just adore (and only adore) Windows XP, start laughing at me, because I am going old school style.
What I want to do is be able to actually read any byte I want from a floppy disk. I am using a standard 3 1/2 inch floppy disk drive to help me out.
The problem is that everything I have done so far has lead to failure.
I even tried connecting the output pins to the LED's and the only output pin that seems to work is the write-protect detection pin.
When I plug the floppy drive into the computer, it works normally.
I have searched several websites, and there is not one single website explaining the details on how to manually read a single byte from a floppy disk!
Why do I want to do this? Because it is SAFER, and the risks are somewhat lower.
I want to eventually take raw data from a floppy disk, (from bit 0 to the end) and program a microcontroller from it.
Also, I want to program some bios chips and hopefully get my old bios working again.
I just picked up another motherboard, and I am using it now as part of my computer. The only two drawbacks are loss of speed, and no CD-ROM booting.
What I want to do is be able to actually read any byte I want from a floppy disk. I am using a standard 3 1/2 inch floppy disk drive to help me out.
The problem is that everything I have done so far has lead to failure.
I even tried connecting the output pins to the LED's and the only output pin that seems to work is the write-protect detection pin.
When I plug the floppy drive into the computer, it works normally.
I have searched several websites, and there is not one single website explaining the details on how to manually read a single byte from a floppy disk!
Why do I want to do this? Because it is SAFER, and the risks are somewhat lower.
I want to eventually take raw data from a floppy disk, (from bit 0 to the end) and program a microcontroller from it.
Also, I want to program some bios chips and hopefully get my old bios working again.
I just picked up another motherboard, and I am using it now as part of my computer. The only two drawbacks are loss of speed, and no CD-ROM booting.