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In <THEN.93Jan10121850@lk-hp-17.hut.fi> then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi  H Engdahl) writes:

>>I have got this external 5.25 drive.  But with it I got this really weird
>>cable that I haven't seen before.  It has 37 pins (or very close to that
>>number) and they won't plug into any computer I have seen.  I don't know
>>much about the external drive but I was wondering what it would take to get
>>this hooked up to my system.  Has anyone ever run across a cable like this?

>It is the standard PC/XT external floppy drive connector. It has all
>the disk drive signal and the power leads to the external drive. The
>data sheet I have does not list the power leads, but when I opened
>one drive I saw that it got power through that cable. 
>The signals are quite in the same way as in original disk drive, though
>the numbering is different.



A long time ago, I once made an external 3,5" 720-kb external drive
for PC/XT-class IBM clone, and used that connector. I think I have
exact pin order for it, somewhere buried in bookshelf. BTW, it worked
fine. I'll post it here if I find it.

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