How Hard to Use Floppy For Flasher?

[Mhz1]

I notice many microcontroller projects actually use the serial, Parrallel, or USB for the Data transfer and Flashing Process... My question is:

How much trouble would it be to have the PIC read its info from a standard Floppy drive? Therefore, you could copy your Programs to floppy disk and use the disk to flash the Microcontroller (PIC)..

Would make your PIC more mobile... Is this a problem creating?

 

[surajbarkale]

Not worth the trouble ;D. Most systems based on microcontrollers are meant to be small & inexpensive. Interfacing a floppy drive would take extra hardware on board. If you want portability you should try using a flashcard / USB stick. Anyway that's my view

 

[MP1]

actually, the code is almost the same for any drive type connection. They all use the same tecnique to recognize the drive. For AVR, you can find an application on the www.mcselec.com website in the applications section on how to do this with BASCOM AVR and the additional free library that is posted on the site. No additional chips are needed. Only the connector and the code. The sample shows a hard drive connection or flash card.

MP