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- From: ac224@detroit.freenet.org (Jim Harvey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 386BB int.floppy cable connector
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 01:47:36 GMT
- Organization: Greater Detroit Free-Net, Detroit, MI
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- References: <Dprn5y.617@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Reply-To: ac224@detroit.freenet.org (Jim Harvey)
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- In a previous article, i9566249@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (Brian Mcewen) says:
-
- >Anyone have any ideas on where I can find the special connector cable
- >to hook up the internal amiga drives, to be shared with the 386 BB?
- >
- >Or do I need it, can I fake things w/ CrossDOS and access the DD IBM disks
- >for the BB via the amiga side?
-
- Aread and Awrite don't work nearly well enough to do this on a regular
- basis.
-
- >I've got the manual, but the drawings of the 3 different cables that came
- >with the BB when it was new, leave a bit to be desired. Is it just a way
- >to hook 2 things up to one floppy? Can I go buy a part to clip onto the
- >existing floppy cable from a computer shop and plug the BB into that?
-
- I remember the cable had a male connector on one end. This would be hard
- to find but you could cannibalize an old floppy and solder the connector on
- a real pain.
-
- >Not having the originals to work from, I'm kind of stuck as to how to put
- >together my own. I'd like to have at least one of the internal drives
- >usable by the IBM, as I only have one external HD drive for my two amigas,
- >and I'd like to leave that on the other computer, and not keep plugging
- >it into the back of the brideboard repeatedly.
-
- You can buy a 1.4 PC floppy for thirty bucks and mount it in an external
- box. There is a connector on the BBoard for this. You can run the
- cable along with a power wire out one of the unused slots on the back.
- --
- Jim Harvey - WB8NBS - 18538 Inkster - Redford, Mich. 48240 Amiga Person
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