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- From: then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi H Engdahl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: weird cable
- Message-ID: <THEN.93Jan10121850@lk-hp-17.hut.fi>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 10:18:50 GMT
- References: <Jade.0s0o@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: Jade@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca's message of 9 Jan 93 12:35:08 GMT
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- 'EIn article <Jade.0s0o@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca> Jade@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Jade) writes:
-
- >I have got this external 5.25 drive. But with it I got this really weird
- >cable that I haven't seen before. It has 37 pins (or very close to that
- >number) and they won't plug into any computer I have seen. I don't know
- >much about the external drive but I was wondering what it would take to get
- >this hooked up to my system. Has anyone ever run across a cable like this?
-
- It is the standard PC/XT external floppy drive connector. It has all
- the disk drive signal and the power leads to the external drive. The
- data sheet I have does not list the power leads, but when I opened
- one drive I saw that it got power through that cable.
- The signals are quite in the same way as in original disk drive, though
- the numbering is different.
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- Tomi.Engdahl@hut.fi ! LOWERY'S LAW:
- then@snakemail.hut.fi ! "If it jams - force it. If it breaks,
- ! it needed replacing anyway."
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