Post by thread:PIC's and floppy (or IDE) drives

> Has anyone attempted to get a PIC to talk to a floppy drive (or IDE) so > that data can be stored in a simple form. My ultimate goal is to send > serial data to a floppy via a PIC for later retrieval, such as, a time > stamp and 8 bits of data. Please Email me. > This should be a FAQ. If it already is, I would like to have a pointer to it. To add some value to this post, you might want to have a look at the IDE spec at: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/msdos_uploads/hard_disk/ide-tech.txt or under ftp://ftp.ncr.com/pub/standards/io/ in the ata files. That doesn't help with the floppy interface, though. From what I've seen of the floppy interface, it shouldn't be too hard to bit-bang. Does anybody out there have a write-up of the gory details? In either case, you're probably going to have to do some buffering or acquire your data as you are writing it to disk.