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UM8398
Single-Chip Floppy Disk Controller
Features
• IBM PC XT/AT drive system compatible • Supports 2 drives (MS-DOS support) • 1.2M/360K/720K format selectable . • IBM PC drive system address decoder • Only 3 components for the drive
• Internal write precompensation circuit; precompensation values: 250-125 ns
• Internal data separator circuit • Supports to control 8", 5%", 3'h" drives
General Description
The UM8398 is a VLSI Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) chip, which contains the circuitry and c9ntrol functions for interfacing a processor with up to 2 floppy disk drives. It Is capable of supporting 360K Bytes, 1.2M Bytes (in 5%'' diskette drives), 720K Bytes, and 1.