Disc drive and DFS Guide

Information.
Release 13.06.1998
This is a first draft release of the BBC Disc Drive documentation.

The document as it exists at the moment is in a very early stage and there is still a fair amount of
information and diagrams to be added.

I have decided to release it at this early stage due to a couple of reasons.

1) Many people have been asking me for the results of a survey regarding disc drives that I did.
2) It will help people sort out any problems they may be having connecting up drives.
3) Others may have information that is missing in this document and therefore be able to notify me
of gaps and help me fill them in.

The current version of this document will always be available from the BBC Documentation Project
site http://members.magnet.at/marku/bbc.htm .

If you do have anything to add then please let me know.

Mark Usher
[email protected]

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1. BASIC COMPUTER HARDWARE 2

1.1. The 8271 DFS upgrade 2

Technical description of the 8271 Disc Interface 3

1.2. The 1770 DFS upgrade 3

1.3. Other upgrades 3

2. THE DFS'S 4

2.1. Acorn 4

2.2. Amcom DFS 4

2.3. HDFS 4

2.4. MRM E00 DFS. 4

2.5. Watford 4

2.6. Solidisk 4

2.7. UDM United Disk Memories 4

3. THE DRIVES 4

3.1. Drives in general 4

3.2. Finding a suitable drive 5

3.3. Attaching Drives 5

3.4. Other drive jumpers 6

Head Loading 6
Head to Select 6
For and against 6
Self Loading 7
Multiplexing 7

4. APPENDIX 1 8

Disc Drive Chart 8

5. APPENDIX 2 14
Floppy Disc Controller Technical Information 14
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1. Basic Computer Hardware
If you want to fit a disc drive to your BBC then the BBC must be fitted with a DFS (Disc Filing
System). This basically consists of a floppy disc controller chip, some logic chips and a DFS ROM
containing the software. These were supplied as kits for the BBC micro in two sorts, one based on the
8271 floppy disc controller (FDC) and the other was based on the 1770 (or sometimes even the 1772)
chip. There were also available some kits that combined both of these controllers on one board for
compatibility with protected software, even though the 1770 has an 8271 emulation.

You can check if your BBC has a DFS fitted or not by simply removing the cover and checking IC78
which is above and to the left of the keyboard connector. If it has a chip fitted then your BBC has an
8271 upgrade fitted, if there is a carrier board in this slot then you have a 1770 DFS upgrade fitted,
and if it is empty then you will have to fit a DFS upgrade yourself.

The BBC B+ and Master series computers were fitted with a 1770 controller as standard (later models
were fitted with the 1772), so you will not need to obtain anything for these computers.

Electron owners will need an extra interface that plugs onto the computer externally. The Acorn
manufactured interface is called a Plus 3 and includes a built in 3.5" drive. There were also interfaces
produced by other companies, some included drives and others you had to buy a drive separately
and attach it to the interface yourself.

1.1. The 8271 DFS upgrade

The 8271 was the first upgrade to be introduced for the BBC. This is based on Intel's 8271 single
density floppy disc controller which became rarer and rarer as the 80's progressed due to it being no
longer manufactured. The 8271 chip is now very hard to find and, when it can be found is often sold
at quite extortionate prices. The upgrade kit consisted of:

1 x 8271 Floppy Disc Controller for IC78

1 x 74LS123 for IC87 (Not required if Econet is already fitted).
1 x 74LS10 for IC82
1 x 74LS00 for IC77 (For a Model A without an analogue upgrade fitted).
2 x 7438 for IC's 79 & 80
2 x 74LS393 for ICs 81 & 86
2 x CD4013B for ICs 83 & 84
1 x CD4020B for IC85
1 x 8 way Dual In-Line (DIL) switch (optional – soldering necessary)
1 x Disc Filing System ROM (Acorn or otherwise) for IC88

Fitting.
i) Insert all the IC's into the sockets provided on the main PCB.
ii) On issue 1 or 2 circuit boards only, connect the two pads of link position S8 with a wire link.
iii) On issue 1, 2 or 3 circuit boards only, cut the leg of IC27 pin 9 as close to the PCB as possible
and the track connected to it on the component side of the circuit board between IC27 and IC89,
then reconnect the cut IC leg to the East pad of link S9 with a short length of insulated wire.
iv) On issue 4 boards onwards, cut the TCW link at position S9.
v) Set the following links using MOLEX jumpers:-
S18 – North
S19 – East
S20 – North
S21 – 2 x East/West
S22 – North
S32 – West
S33 – West
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vi) Insert the 8 way DIL switch into the holes on the bottom right hand side of the keyboard and
solder into place. Leave all the switches in the off position.

Technical description of the 8271 Disc Interface

IC78 is a floppy disc controller circuit which is used to interface to one or two, single or double sided 5
¼ inch floppy disc drives. Logic signals from the controller to the disc drive are buffered by two open
collector driver packages IC79 and 80. The incoming signal from the disc drive is first conditioned by
monostable IC87 producing a pulse train with each pulse of fixed width. These pulses are then fed to
the data seperation circuits ICs 81 and 82. These form a digital monostable. IC86 divides the 8MHz
clock signal down to 31.25kHz. ICs 83, 84 and 85 are then used to detect index pulses coming in
from the drive which show that the drive is ready for a read or write operation.

1.2. The 1770 DFS upgrade

The 1770/1772 was manufactured by Western Digital and is a more modern double density controller,
allowing an extra 80% storage capacity on a floppy disc. It is though a different physical size to the
8271 controller and consequently it has to be mounted on a small carrier board before it can be fitted
into the IC78 slot on the BBC. This means that unless you have an original upgrade kit or a circuit
design for a carrier board, that it would not be possible to fit this upgrade. I would like to publish a
carrier board design, but at the moment I do not have one.

Before Acorn released their 1770 Upgrade kit, there were many others on the market, most notably
from Solidisk and Watford Electronics. The 1770 upgrade also enables the BBC to use Acorn's ADFS
– Advanced Disc Filing System with floppies which isn't possible with the 8271, although caution must
be used here as the ADFS was released after many of these upgrade boards became available.
Hence, with some 1770 upgrades there is an incompatibility with Acorn's ADFS, most notably the
Solidisk board. Most of the incompatible boards did have a revision released after the issue of ADFS
to overcome this problem. e.g. Solidisk Issue II is compatible with Acorn's ADFS.

Fitting instructions for Acorn's 1770 DFS Upgrade are available in a separate document at
http://www.nvg.unit.no/bbc/doc/1770FittingInstructions.zip
Another point is Acorn's upgrade did not make use of the double density feature available with the
1770 FDC, whereas most of the other upgrades did.

1.3. Other upgrades

There were numerous other upgrades available.

Solidisk released the DFDC (Dual Floppy Disc Controllers) interface board. This was basically a
carrier board with both 1770 and 8271 FDC's thus giving full compatibility. You changed between the
two by the use of a small switch.

OPUS released their DDOS system which is again on a carrier board. I know little about this upgrade
though. They also had some combined RAM disc and floppy drive systems that plugged directly into
the 1MHz bus connector.

Matt Callow [[email protected]] mentioned that he has a 1797 floppy controller mounted on a
separate board (made by Computer Village Ltd.). At boot up the BBC reports 'LVL Dos'. I have no
other information about this upgrade.

Kenda DMFS.
No information. Was this a 1771 based DFS ?
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2. The DFS's
2.1. Acorn
DFS-0.9 8271 BBC B
DFS-0.98 8271 BBC B
DNFS 1.2 8271 BBC B
DFS 2.0j 1770 BBC B/B+ This was the first release of the 1770 DFS and was in
EPROM.
DFS 2.10 1770 BBC B/B+ The same as v2.0j but in ROM.
DFS 2.20 1770 BBC B/B+ The release of the BBC B+ 128 saw version 2.2 DFS
released. This was also used in the Master 128.
Shift-Z Break function included to emulate the 8271.
Extra commands necessary to deal with the 64K of paged
RAM in the B+.
DFS 2.21 No record of it's release or existence.
DFS 2.22 1770 BBC B/B+ Developed to fix an esoteric OSFILE bug.
Also the 128k associated SRAM utilities have been tidied
up to make them more user friendly.
This version will not work in all BBC Model B's fitted with a
1770 upgrade board.
DFS 2.23 1770 BBC B/B+ Cures the problem of v2.22 not working in all BBC's.
DFS 2.24 Master MOS 3.20 Loading with OSFILE &FF returns A=1.
File saves>64K work
DFS 2.25 1770 BBC B/B+ CLOSE#0 and *CLOSE and *SHUT leaves files with
correct length.
Writing to extent works correctly.
Unknown command as LIBFS works correctly
DFS 2.26 1770 BBC B/B+ Last for the B/B+
OSGBPB speeded-up.
All four head step rates implemented i.e.
*CONFIGURE FDRIVE 0 1 2 3
for 1770 6 12 20 30 mS
for 1772 6 12 2 3 mS
DFS 2.27/8 Master Software patch for spurious Motor-on after 1770 reset.
Following fixed:
If a) A file was open
b) the disk had been changed
c) BREAK was pressed
then the old disk catalogue would be written to the new
disk.
DFS 2.29 OSGBPB tube problem introduced at 2.26 fixed.
*CONFIGURE FDRIVE 2 has software delay added to
hardware delay.
This allows for support of slow step rate drives with 1772
fitted, i.e.
*CONFIGURE FDRIVE 0 1 2 3
for 1770 6 12 50 30 mS
for 1772 6 12 32 3 mS
DFS 2.45 Master MOS 3.50 You can now save files longer than 64k bytes.
All four step rates are now used.
OSGBPB now executes more quickly.
CLOSE#0 leaves files with the correct length.
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2.2. Amcom DFS
When running an AMCOM DFS from sideways RAM you must write protect the sideways RAM bank
as the DFS has a copy protection. The major incompatibility with this DFS is that you can't use
coloured titles on a disc as the DFS uses an upper bit in the title string to signify extended mode so
anything out of the ordinary in a disc tittle will confuse it.

2.3. HDFS
Angus Duggans DFS. For a full description of this DFS see
http://www.nvg.unit.no/bbc/doc/HDFS.ps This is in PostScript format.

2.4. MRM E00 DFS.

This was a basic 8271 upgrade except that the DFS ROM was on a carrier board with it's own RAM
chips. The RAM supplied on board serves as a dedicated disc workspace freeing existing RAM from
&E00 to &1900. This will also run from sideways RAM as long as the sideways RAM bank is not write
protected. There are some limitations to this DFS though. First, command lines in BUILD files should
be less than 100 characters in length. Second, the maximum number of files which you may access
at any one time is four (the standard allows five).

2.5. Watford

2.6. Solidisk

2.7. UDM United Disk Memories

2.8. The Drives

2.9. Drives in general
The BBC had many assorted drives attached to it, ranging from 8", 5¼", 3½" and 3" drives. The most
widely used was the 5¼" drive and later with the Electron Plus 3 and the Master series the 3½ drive
became the standard used.

Disk drives were sold by many different companies for the BBC, including Watford, Viglin and
Cumana amongst others. Most of these drives though were badged drives from Japanese
manufacturers, the most common being Epson, Mitsubishi and TEAC. There were two normal
standards for the 5¼" disk drive, 40 and 80 track. The 40 track drive lays down it's magnetic tracks at
a pitch of 48 tracks per inch (48 TPI) whilst the 80 track drives operate at 96 TPI, i.e. exactly half the
track width of the 40 track drive. Both 40 and 80 track drives were available with a single head (which
records on one side of the disk only) or with a double head enabling recording on both sides. A double
headed drive has therefore twice the storage capacity of a single headed drive.

Using 8271 based DFS (FM encoding) disk capacities are:

BBC Formatted Unformatted

40 Track Single Sided 100KB 250KB
40 Track Double Sided 200KB 500KB
80 Track Single Sided 200KB 500KB
80 Track Double Sided 400KB 1MB

Using 1770 based DFS (MFM encoding) disk capacities are:

BBC Formatted Unformatted

40 Track Single Sided 180KB 250KB
40 Track Double Sided 360KB 500KB
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80 Track Single Sided 360KB 500KB
80 Track Double Sided 720KB 1MB

2.10. Finding a suitable drive

Obviously the best drive for the BBC is an 80 Track double sided drive as this would give us the full
400K. Unfortunately these drives are not so common as 5¼" 720K drives were never used in PC's.
Also 80 track single sided drives are quite uncommon, again for the same reasons. A 40 track double
sided drive should be quite easy to find as they were used extensively in older PC's, but then we only
have half the storage capacity that is possible. There were on the other hand many 720KB 3.5" disc
drives made, as these were used by various computer manufacturers, so if you want to use 3.5" discs
then these should be a lot easier to find. An added advantage is also that 3.5" double density discs
are also easier to find than 5¼" double density discs, but for how long is another question entirely.

Many high density PC floppy drives i.e. 3.5" 1.44MB drives and 5¼" 1.2MB drives can also run in low
density modes. Most of the 3.5" drives will switch between the two formats automatically, whereas the
5¼" drives are normally set as 1.2MB drives at the factory and need some jumpers changing before
they will operate in a dual mode. The jumpers that need setting are labelled differently on different
models, but you should look for High/Low density, and the rotation speed jumper. This is set to 360
RPM for high density operation, and so must be changed to dual 300/360 RPM mode so that low
density can also be used.

As far as my test show, these drives will work with a 1770/1772 FDC but cause problems with the
8271 FDC. The reason seems to lie with the 8271 DFS and the timings contained within the DFS
code. Jonathan Harston has written a program that will patch an Acorn DNFS 1.20 ROM image to
change the DFS timings, and my tests show that this does indeed solve the problems. You must also
remember to set the timings on the BBC keyboard links. The program has been included in the
archive that contains this document. Just transfer the program to a disc that also contains an image of
the Acorn DNFS 1.20 ROM. Run the program, you will be asked a few questions to which you answer
yes or no, and then you will be the program will print the *SAVE command that you must use to save
the new image. The program does not save the new image automatically.

2.11.Attaching Drives
First you will need a power supply. You can use the power supply from the underside of the BBC with
a suitable lead. If you don't have a lead then this can be a problem as it is very hard to find the
connector. The exact details are:

PSU socket: AMP 1-350241

PSU female pins: AMP 360666-1
cable connector: AMP 1-250234
male pins: AMP 350664-1

Alternatively you can use a power supply from a PC.

Besides a power supply you will also need a data transfer cable. This is a simple 34way ribbon cable,
with an edge connector for the drive and another connector for the underside of the BBC. Be careful if
you are using a PC floppy drive cable as this contains a twist in the cable. This is because all PC
floppy drives are set as drive 1, and the twist reverses this for the first drive, effectively making it drive
0. The BBC doesn't operate like this. So if you are wanting to connect two drives you will have to
"remove" the twist, or in a single drive system, just use the connector before the twist.

Once you have your BBC, DFS, drive and cables, you must configure the drive before connecting it
up. If it is an old PC drive then it will be jumpered as DS1 (Drive 1) by default. If it is to be Drive 0 on
your BBC, you must change the jumper to DS0, and in a dual drive system you would change the
jumper on only one of the drives, so one is DS0 and the second is DS1.
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Also the last drive on the cable, i.e. the one furthest away from the BBC must be terminated. Drives
are also terminated by default. This is fine if you have a single drive system, but in a dual drive
system the terminator must be removed on the drive nearest the BBC on the cable.

Terminators vary between drives. Some look like an IC and are usually in a DIL socket, or sometimes
they are a thin row that is attached to the drives circuit board. Another possibility is that the terminator
can be turned on or off by use of a DIL switch or jumper on the drives circuit board e.g. some
Mitsubishi drives.

Once you have set all of this, you can then attach your drive and BBC together and start trying to
format some disks.

2.12. Other drive jumpers

Head Loading
Some drives use a head load solenoid. This means that it requires either a Motor On or a valid Drive
select signal before the head can be loaded against the media for communication with the disk. This
is the purpose of the two, switch or link options found on many drives, HM or HS. These stand for
Head to Motor and Head to Drive Select respectively. This means with the HM link set, the head of
the disk drive will be loaded against the disk any time the motor is started up. It may well be that the
computer wishes to access another drive, but as all the Motor On lines are usually connected
together the motors of all the drives will be activated. Thus, any drive that has the HM option set will
load the head of the drive against the media. When the computer comes to use that drive, then the
drive will already be in a condition to pass information to and from the disk.

Head to Select
With the switch or link set in the HS position then the loading of the head against the media will only
take place when that particular drive is actually selected for communication between its disk media
and the computer. That is to say that with the HS option selected and a drive set to be drive one or
DS1 of the system, then only when drive one is selected will the head of the drive actually be loaded
ready for use.

For and against

There are arguments for and against both methods of head selection. With the HM option there is
more wear on the disk due to the head always being loaded when any drive is selected or used. Any
drive access however small will result in all the heads of all the drives being loaded against the
media. If you have the HM option selected you will not require a Head Settling time before the drive
is Ready For Use. It speeds up drive to drive access time and is a lot quieter if a lot of drive to drive
transfers are taking place.
In the case of the HS option then disk wear is reduced to a minimum as the head is only in contact
with the media when an access is required to that particular drive. This results in a lot of clicking
taking place during drive to drive transfers. It also means that when the drive is selected then a small
amount of time must be allowed for the head to settle against the disk before access is attempted.
This is known as Head Settling time and can be as much as 50 m/s in older drives.

Self Loading
It may be that you have a drive that contains neither the HS or HM link options. If this is the case the
drive is most likely to be the type whereby the head is loaded against the disk every time the drive
door is closed. This means that the head of the drive is in contact with the disk at all times. This
results in an even higher degree of disk wear than a drive with the HM option set.

Multiplexing
Another connection that can be found on floppy drives is the MX link. This is one that often causes
trouble and confusion. Its purpose is to allow two or more drives to be connected together on the
same cable. Incorrect setting of this can cause surprising results, even causing you to think there is a
fault with another drive on the system.
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The MX link should not be set in most drives, however in some of the early TEAC drives the opposite
is true. It is also quite normal for the MX link not to be made in single drive systems.

3.5 BBC keyboard link configurations

Here are tables detailing the various link settings on the lower right hand side of the keyboard.

First all the settings:

BIT Switch Setting Description

0 8 Start up Mode
1 7
2 6
3 5 0 !BOOT on Shift Break
1 !BOOT on Break
4 4 Disk Stepping times
5 3
6 2 0 HADFS Floppy driver
1 external driver
7 1 0 DNFS. Starts in DFS
1 DNFS. Starts in NFS

Here are the settings for the 8271 controller.

SW3 SW4 Step rate Settle Head load

time
1 1 4ms 16ms 0ms
1 0 6ms 16ms 0ms
0 1 6ms 50ms 8ms
0 0 20ms 20ms 16ms

NB: Some documents state the last two times for head load are 32 and 64, not 8 and 16.

Here are the settings for the 1770 controller (up to DFS v2.29)

SW3 SW4 Step rate Settle Head load

time
1 1 6ms
1 0 12ms
0 1 20ms
0 0 30ms
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Here are the settings for the 1772 controller (up to DFS v2.29)

SW3 SW4 Step rate Settle Head load

time
1 1 6ms
1 0 12ms
0 1 2ms
0 0 3ms

Setting link 3 and not link 4 will give you the slowest step time possible
with the 1772. You should avoid setting the step time of a standard 5.25
inch disc drive to 2 or 3ms with the 1772 chip, as most drives will not work
at these speeds.
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3. Appendix 1
Disc Drive Chart
This chart should help you find a drive to use with the BBC. 1.2MB and 1.44MB models have not
been included. The In use column signifies if a particular drive is known to be used with a BBC

Size Unformatted Formatted Density Manufacturer Model Height In use

capacity capacity
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD BASF 6106 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD CDC 9408 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD CDC 9428-1 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Hi-Tech 548-25 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD M.P.I. 501 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD M.P.I. 51M Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD M.P.I. B51S Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Pertec FD200 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Shugart SA200 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Shugart SA215 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Shugart SA390 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Shugart SA400 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Tandon TM100-1A Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Tandon TM50-1 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Tandon TM55-1 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Tandon TM65-1L Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Teac 50A Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Teac 55A Half Yes
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Tec FB501 Half Yes
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD Texas Peripherals 10-5355-001 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSDD World Storage FD100-5 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSSD Alps FDD 2124 Half No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSSD Shugart SA400L Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB SSSD Siemens FDD100-5 Full No
5¼" 250KB 180KB MPI 51-S Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB Teac 55E Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSQD Weltec M48D-1 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Alps 2624-BKI Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Alps DFC 222 AO5A Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Alps DFC 222 BO2A Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Alps FDD 2124A Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Bachelor FD-104 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD BASF 6128 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Canon 5201 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Canon 531 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD CDC 9409 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD CDC 9428 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD CDC 9428-2 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Chinon 502 Half Yes
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5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Epson 500 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Epson 521L Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Epson SD-521 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Epson SD-621L-xxx Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Epson SD321 1/3 No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Fujitsu 2551K Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Hewlett Packard J455-3 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Hi-Tech 548-50 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Hi-Tech 548-A Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD I.B.M. 0384-002 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD M.P.I. 502B Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD M.P.I. 52M Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD M.P.I. 52S Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD M.P.I. B52S Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Maple Tech MT-502 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Micropolis 1016-2 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Mitac MC-490 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Mitsubishi 4851 Half Yes
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Mitsubishi 501A Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Mitsubishi 501B Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Mitsubishi 501C Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Mitsumi D503 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD N.E.C 1053 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Okidata 3305 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Okidata 3305BU 1/3 No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Okidata 3305U Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Okidata 3315B Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Olivetti 4311-3 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Olivetti XM4311 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Panasonic 455 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Panasonic 551 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Pertec FD250 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Phillips 3132 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Qume 142 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Qume 542 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Qume DT/5 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Remex RFD 480 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Samsung SFD500K Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Sanyo 500C Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Sanyo FDA-5200 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Shugart SA210 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Shugart SA450 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Shugart SA455 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Shugart SA551 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Siemens FDD221-5 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Tandon TM100-2A Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Tandon TM101-2 Full No
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5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Tandon TM50-2 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Tandon TM55-2 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Tandon TM65-2L Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Tandon TM75-2 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Teac 53B Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Teac 55B Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Teac 55BR Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Teac 55BV Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Tec FB503 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 0242A Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5401 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5406 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5426 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5451 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5454 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5471 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5472 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 5474 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 6371 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 6374 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 6471 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba 6474-T2P Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Toshiba M48D-12 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD Weltec M48D-14 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD World Storage FD200-5 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD YE Data YD580 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB DSDD YE Data YD580B Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD CDC 9429-1 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD M.P.I. 91M Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD M.P.I. B101M-S Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD M.P.I. B91S Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD Tandon TM100-3 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD Tandon TM100-3M Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD Tandon TM101-3 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSQD Victor TM100-3-VIC Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Hitachi HFD 305S Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Micropolis 1015-2 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Micropolis 1115-5 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Phillips 3121 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Shugart SA300 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Shugart SA410 Full Yes
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Siemens FDD121-5 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SSDD Siemens FDD196-5 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB Epson SD-520 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB Micro Solutions BACKPACK(5L) Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB Mitsubishi 4852 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB Mitsubishi MF501A,B Half No
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5¼" 500KB 360KB MPI 52-S Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB PACIFIC RIM U360 Half No
5¼" 500KB 360KB SHUGART SA460 Full No
5¼" 500KB 360KB Toshiba 0401GR Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD AT&T KS-23114 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD BASF 6138 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Canon 220 Half Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Canon 221 Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Canon 530 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD CDC 9409T Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD CDC 9429 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Fujitsu 2554K Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Fujitsu M2552A Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Hi-Tech 596-10 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD JVC MDP-100 Half Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD M.P.I. 92M-002 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD M.P.I. B102M-S Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD M.P.I. B92M Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD M.P.I. B92S Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Micropolis 1006-4N Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Micropolis 1015-4 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Micropolis 1015-6 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Micropolis 1115-4 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Micropolis 1115-6 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Micropolis 1117-6 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 4852 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 4853 Half Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 4853 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 503 Half Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD N.E.C 1055 Half Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Panasonic 465 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Panasonic 595 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Ricoh 5100 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Seiko 8640 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Shugart SA460 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Shugart SA465 Half Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Shugart SA561 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Tandon TM100-4 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Tandon TM100-4A Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Tandon TM101-4 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Tandon TM101-4A Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Tandon TM55-4 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Tandon TM65-4 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Teac 55FR Half Yes
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Teac 55FV Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Tec FB504 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 0202A Full No
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5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 5629 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Victor TM100-4-VIC Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Weltec M16-P12 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Weltec N96-12 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD YE Data YD280 Full No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSDD Phillips 3133 Half No
5¼" 1.0MB 720KB DSDD Weltec M16-R12/910 Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Chinon FB354 Half Yes
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Citizen OPDB-22A 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Citizen OSDA-01D 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Citizen OSDA-77D 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Citizen OSDA-90E-U 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Citizen OSDD-05B 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Citizen OSDD-57 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Citizen OSDD-57B 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Epson 180 Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Epson 200P-053 Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Epson 200P-055 Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Epson 200P-073 Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Epson 280 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Epson SMD-380-xxx 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Epson SMD-389-xxx Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Fujitsu M2551A No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Fujitsu N02B-0112- Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Fujitsu B001
N02B-0112- Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi B201
353-12 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 353AF Half Yes
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 353B-12 Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 353B-82 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi 353C 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsubishi MF353B,C Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Mitsumi No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD N.E.C 1035 Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD N.E.C 1036A 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD N.E.C 1037A 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Newtronic D357 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD PACIFIC RIM U720 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Panasonic 253 1/3 Yes
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Sony 53W 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Sony 63W 1/3 Yes
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Sony MP-F11W 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Teac 135FN 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Teac 235F 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Teac 335F 19.0 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Teac 35F Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Teac 35FN Half No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 3527H 1/3 No
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3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 3527TH 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 352TH 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 4202-AOK 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 4207-AOK 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 4207-AOK 1" No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 4210 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba 4261 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba ND-352T,S 1/3 No
3½" 1.0MB 720KB DSQD Toshiba ND-354A 1/3 No
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4. Appendix 2
Floppy Disc Controller Technical Information

1771 Pin information

1 VBB -5V
2 !WE !Write enable A logic low copies the data on the DAL into the
selected register when CS is low.
3 !CS !Chip select
4 !RE !Read enable A logic low on this input controls the placement of
data from a selected register on the DAL when !CS
is low.
5,6 A0-A1 Register select:
A1 A0 !RE !WE
0 0 Status register Command register
0 1 Track register Track register
1 0 Sector register Sector register
1 1 Data register Data register
7-14 !DAL0- !Data Access Lines Enabled by !RE OR !WE
DAL7
15 !PH1/ !Phase 1/Step If the !3PM input is low then three phase motor
STEP control is selected and !PH1-PH3 outputs are used to
16 !PH2/ !Phase 2/Dir control it.
DIRC
17 PH3 !Phase 3
18 !3PM !3 phase motor
select
19 !MR ??? !PH1 is active low after !MR.
20 VSS GND
21 VC +5V
22 !TEST !Test Should be tied to +5V or left floating.
23 HLT Head load timing When this is logic 1, the head is assumed to be
engaged.
24 CLK Clock Free running 2MHz +-1% square wave for internal
uses.
25 !XTDS !External data Logic low or open selects seperation
the internal data separator
26 FDCLOC Floppy disc clock For external data separation
K
27 FDDATA Floppy disc data Raw data if !XTDS is 1 or externally separated data if !
XTDS is 0.
28 HLD Head load Controls the loading of the RW head against the media.
29 TG43 Track greater than
43
30 WG
31 WD Contains clock and data bits
32 READY Ready Same is !b7 in the status register
33 !WF Write fault
34 !TR00 !Track 00
35 !IP !Index pulse Held for a minimum of 10us when an index mark is
found on the disc.
36 !WPRT !Write protect A logic low terminates a command and sets the write
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protect bit.
37 !DINT !Disc initialisation If !DINT=0 the operation is cancelled and the write
protect bit is set.
38 DRQ !Data request Indicates that more data is needed in the data register,
or the data is waiting to be taken.
39 INTRQ Interrupt request Set at the completion (successful or otherwise) of any
operation. Use a 10k pull resistor to +5V.
40 VDD +12V