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- From: dyke@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Niskanen Mikko)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: weird cable
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 19:12:14 +0200
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Computing Centre
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- In <THEN.93Jan10121850@lk-hp-17.hut.fi> then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi H Engdahl) 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.
-
-
-
- A long time ago, I once made an external 3,5" 720-kb external drive
- for PC/XT-class IBM clone, and used that connector. I think I have
- exact pin order for it, somewhere buried in bookshelf. BTW, it worked
- fine. I'll post it here if I find it.
-
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