17 Sep
2004
17 Sep
'04
8:32 a.m.
Christian Fandt wrote:
Has anyone information on decoding the model number
suffix on a
Panasonic 3.5" floppy drive? The number is JU-257-14PF.
Ooh, now... There used to be two types of interface for 720k floppies,
Shugart and "PC" (it may have a proper name). Old samplers and stuff
quite often used the Shugart drives, in particular Casio and Ensoniq.
Rainer Buchty's site http://www.buchty.net describes how you can make up
an adaptor cable to use a PC 720k floppy in a Casio FZ-1. In theory it
should work for Emaxes, Ensoniq kit and other machines that use the same
connection. IIRC it's just a case of swapping a few wires around.
This might not be what you need, or it might be exactly what you need.
I haven't tried it myself. Let me know how you get on.
Gordon.