29 Oct
2012
29 Oct
'12
12:44 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
I instaleld a version 2 -- the one with the ASIC -- for somebody many
years ago. It had the conenctors as you describe, and I seem to rememebrs
a couple of jumpers that you had to set depending on which connector when
to the controller and which to the drive (the 'manual' confusing referd
tho it as XT and AT settings, of course the XT-clone I was puttign it in
had a header plug not a cerd edge on the controller, so it used AT-style
cabling, which is what confused us for a bit). Anyway, from tracing the
tracks on the board, ti appeared that these jumpers formed a reversiong
switch. One signal (perhaps WD?) was intercepted by the board, tjhe
jumpers swithcd and input and ouptu pin on the ASIC to the correct
connectors.
-tony
therefore whats needed is a piece of ribbon cable
or mort modern 3.5
only floppy cable, iow dual inline connectors at opposite ends, and a
card edge in between?
Maybe.
The original design called for two cables, to "input" through one
"port"
and "output" through the other. Although they were interchangeable, they
may or may not have actually been in parallel.