Simple reading and writing on Floppy Disk I am trying to interface a 3.5" floppy drive (read and write data onto floppy disc). Since I need to write just few bit long number on it (16 is more than enough) I am thinking I could write it track-wise (each track is one bit), which gives me teoretically 80 bit long number, so I could write 4 times 16 bit long number for some redundancy.

I found this code, which solves reading data out. For writing I found this page which says, that writing should be similar easy process.

I attached code I am running here. Reading seems to work, but writing not. The interesting part of code is:

void writeData(byte data){
  Serial.println("Writing");
  digitalWrite(writeEnablePin, LOW); //starting spining a motor
  digitalWrite(motorEnableBPin, LOW); //enabling motorEnable
  stepAllTheWayOut(); //moving head to the edge of drive
  for(unsigned i = 0; i&lt;10; i++){ //repeating 10 times
    for(unsigned index = 0; index&lt;=8; index++){ //repeating 8 times (there are 80 tracks)
      digitalWrite(writeDataPin,bitRead(data,index)); //setting data pin
      Serial.print(bitRead(data,index)); //printing out what is being written
      delay(500); //spinning for a while to write all over the track
      digitalWrite(writeEnablePin, HIGH); //stepping not working when writeEnablePin is LOW
      stepIn();
      digitalWrite(writeEnablePin, LOW);
    }
    Serial.println("");
  }
  digitalWrite(motorEnableBPin, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(writeEnablePin, HIGH);
}


The output is:

Setup done.
Writing
010101010
010101010
010101010
010101010
010101010
010101010
010101010
010101010
010101010
010101010
Reading
111001000
101010001
110111001
001000101
001011001
111111101
110101101
111110011
111111001
101111110


The output is not what should be written. (the bits are changed every time i run the code)

Any idea what am I doing wrong when writing?
for(unsigned index = 0; index&lt;=8; index++)


I think that need to be 

for(unsigned index = 0; index&lt;8; index++)


Otherwise you are trying to read the 9th bit in a byte.