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Article #28899Re: How standard are ST drives?
From: ftw
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1987 15:21
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1987 15:21
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> The Atari 3.5 Firmey disk drives do indeed use the standard 34 pin
> industry standard card edge connector. We have many people here that have
> from the very beginning of of the ST's introduction, attached 5.25 floppy
> disk drives via the inside 34 pin connector.
Have you disassembled your drive lately? I think you'll find a 34 pin
header, NOT a 34 pin edge connector. He'll need to build an adaptor if
the drive he plans to use has the edge conenctor. Parts are available at
any Radio Shack (header pins and edge connector sockets for ribbon cable).
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> -Rich
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!ftw From: ftw@datacube.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: How standard are ST drives? Message-ID: <105100021@datacube> Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 10:21:00 EST Article-I.D.: datacube.105100021 Posted: Fri Oct 23 10:21:00 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 00:33:08 EST References: <2010@aramis.rutgers.edu> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:aramis.rutgers.edu:-201000:datacube:105100021:000:1142 Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!ftw Oct 23 10:21:00 1987