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picosonic / bbc-fdc

Floppy disk interface for Raspberry Pi
MIT License
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binary #36

Open jrweikle opened 5 months ago

jrweikle commented 5 months ago

is there a precompiled binary available?

or directions on making the binary for someone who has never done so before?

jrweikle commented 5 months ago

ok finally figured out how to make the binaries. The software says it doesn't see the drive index. what are the jumper settings suppose to be on?

picosonic commented 3 weeks ago

Hi, the jumpers are for switching between 5-inch and 8-inch drives

J2 switches between using index sensor on pins 4 (8 inch drive) and 8 (5 inch drive) of the shugart cable J3 switches between drive 0 and drive 1 select J4 switches between side (head) select on pins 32 (5 inch drive) and 2 (8 inch drive)

hope that's helpful.

I use it in the 5 inch position, then only normally move the drive select jumper depending on what drive I connect. 3.25 inch PC drives tend to favour drive 1, older ones are more likely to default to drive 0, but it depends if your shugart cable has a twist and if it does which side of the twist you connect your drive.

This is why I created the drivetest program, to hopefully allow you to verify your wiring and signals

jrweikle commented 3 weeks ago

thanks i will try that some time this weekend