7 Feb
2009
7 Feb
'09
4:01 a.m.
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 20:27 -0500, David Betz wrote:
Hmmm... Sounds like cutting my floppy cable in two and
trying to
interface it with a standard PC floppy drive might be the easier
approach. I was just trying to find a way that didn't involve
destroying my only floppy cable. I figure as soon as I do that I'll
find someone with a floppy drive and no cable and be sunk...
Why would you need to cut the cable to adapt it to a PC floppy?
Get some "IDE joiners" which are basically like IDE headers with the
pins twice as long, intended for joining ribbon cables back-to-back.
Snip off six pins, and extend the "proper" ST cable with a ordinary
ribbon cable that you can bodge to fit.
Gordon