Re: MFM drive gone nuts

>What was 'shockingly non-standard' about PC floppy drives?

Some drives need to be selected to have the motor on, others don't. This is 
from some interfaces having a separate line for each floppy motor control, 
while others have a single line shared between drives.
Then there is the ready / disk change.

I have an old drive out of a pc that had something like 10 different dip 
switches, so that it could be configured to be used with pretty much 
everything. It was similar to one of the models that commodore used, but 
they bought a cost reduced one with a fixed configuration.


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