Osborne Floppy Drive compatability

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Phil Clayton wrote: James Willing wrote: On 16 Sep 1998, Frank McConnell wrote: Phil Clayton <handyman(a)sprintmail.com> writes: I have several old 360K floppy drives removed from old XT's is it possible to use these to replace my defective CP/M drives.? **** snip **** Then that brings me to the next question. Can I do some modification to my old XT drive to get it to work on the Osborne 01? Understand the Power in the ribbon thing.. Does anyone have a pin-out if it can be done..? Thanks... Phil... Courtesy of the chap who sent it to me some time back: - don The disk controller chip used on the main logic board is the Fujitsu 8877, equivalent to the Western Digital 1793. The following pinouts apply to the disk cable connector on the main logic board. pin 1 GND 2 GND 3 GND 4 GND 5 GND 6 GND 7 GND 8 INDEX 9 GND 10 DRIVE SELECT 1 11 +12 volts 12 DRIVE SELECT 2 13 +12 volts 14 NC 15 +12 volts 16 4mhz clock 17 +12 volts 18 DIR 19 GND 20 STEP 21 +5 volts 22 WRITE DATA 23 +5 volts 24 WRITE GATE 25 +5 volts 26 TRACK 00 27 GND 28 WRITE PROTECT 29 GND 30 READ DATA 31 GND 32 SIDE SELECT 33 GND 34 LATE Figure 7.3 Main Board Disk Cable Connector Pinouts