UM8398 Overview
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 1.44M Bytes, (in 3Y:i'' diskette drives) FDDs using FM/MFM-coded, and double sided recording. UM8398 includes an internal data separator, write prepensation,...
UM8398 Key Features
- IBM PC XT/AT drive system patible
- Supports 2 drives (MS-DOS support)
- 1.2M/360K/720K format selectable
- IBM PC drive system address decoder
- Only 3 ponents for the drive
- Internal write prepensation circuit; prepensation values: 250-125 ns
- Internal data separator circuit
- Supports to control 8", 5%", 3'h" drives