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  • Re: PS/2 floppy to standard clone

    From gfretwell@aol.com@21:1/5 to camtheman155@yahoo.com on Wed Jun 15 00:29:11 2022
    On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:17:27 -0700 (PDT), "camthe...@yahoo.com" <camtheman155@yahoo.com> wrote:

    So I want to use a gotek with my Model 80, of course the gotek uses the standard 34 pin Shugart PC clone connector, not the IBM PS/2 proprietary 40 pin. Does anyone have any guides/advice for making a cable? I've seen the TexElec adapter but that is
    only for card edge. Power isn't an issue for the gotek since I can use one of my dozens of molex to FDD cables.

    There is also a problem with pin 2.
    IBM uses it to tell the drive what density to use and the rest of the
    world uses a switch on the drive to tell the controller what the disk
    type is.

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  • From camtheman155@yahoo.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 14 21:17:27 2022
    So I want to use a gotek with my Model 80, of course the gotek uses the standard 34 pin Shugart PC clone connector, not the IBM PS/2 proprietary 40 pin. Does anyone have any guides/advice for making a cable? I've seen the TexElec adapter but that is only
    for card edge. Power isn't an issue for the gotek since I can use one of my dozens of molex to FDD cables.

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  • From IBMMuseum@21:1/5 to gfre...@aol.com on Wed Jun 15 15:04:21 2022
    On Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 10:28:31 PM UTC-6, gfre...@aol.com wrote:
    On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:17:27 -0700 (PDT), "camthe...@yahoo.com" <camthe...@yahoo.com> wrote:

    So I want to use a gotek with my Model 80, of course the gotek uses the standard 34 pin Shugart PC clone connector, not the IBM PS/2 proprietary 40 pin. Does anyone have any guides/advice for making a cable? I've seen the TexElec adapter but that is
    only for card edge. Power isn't an issue for the gotek since I can use one of my dozens of molex to FDD cables.
    There is also a problem with pin 2.
    IBM uses it to tell the drive what density to use and the rest of the
    world uses a switch on the drive to tell the controller what the disk
    type is.

    Mark Malley has an adapter for the 34-pin drives: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304382610986

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