Re: Floppy device driver

Norm Dresner wrote:
"Angad" <kamat.angad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1137499835.916536.12930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi people

I'm in the process of writing a minimal device driver for a floppy
controller for a custom made OS.  Only the minimum required
functionality is expected from the driver. Hence, I am in search of a
document that gives a complete algorithm for the disk operations of
seek, read and write. I would be really glad if someone could mail it
to me or give a link (anything!). My idea is that the document must
contain information related to the motor operation too, such as the
wait period for spin-up / spin-down and stuff like that. Any kind of
information is welcome.


Why can't you just use the floppy driver from your Linux distribution? 

Maybe because that's GPL-ed?

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