A question regarding floppy drives functionality..

[Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Allison wrote:
>>> Background : I am musing on how to give a small amount of storage, 
>>> say around 100kb, to a very small low tech cpu.
>>> I do not care about speed and efficiency.
>>
>> Myself for 100k I'd use a EEprom. Eprom or even 128k ram with a battery.
> 
> That was my immediate thought too, but it perhaps depends on whether the 
> OP meant KB or Kb.

I meant 100Kbytes.
  And of course whether they have ease of portability
> issues in mind. 
Not really, it was more a question of having some "stylish correct" 
storage for the planned system.


But certainly from an interfacing point of view to a
> 'low tech CPU' I doubt there's anything easier than an EEPROM.

I fully realize there are easier options. If that was my concern I would 
have gone for the SD-card solution.
However I might cut corners and go for a simple one-sector per track 
implementation.

Allison's suggestion of feeding squarewaves and looking at what comes 
back seems like a good idea, and will be a starting point.

				Jos Dreesen