On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, shadoooo wrote: Biggest problem is the cable. There are commercial ones available! Otherwise, start out with both pinouts, . . . Don't tell Tony, but for my first one, I used a "solderless bread-board". I was plaeasntly surprised to find that it was almost all 1-to-1. Once you've got it cabled, lie to the PC, and tell it that it's a 5.25" 1.2M drive; see if it will format, read, and write. One more gotcha: some FDCs will do single density, some won't. Some will do 128 byte double density, some won't. Dave Dunfield has done a great job of documenting which will work, and testing such. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com