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Article #43149Re: Pinouts for floppy drive wanted
From: Keith Ericson
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 23:03
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 23:03
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In article <3523.25e9bf4a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: <In article <312963@neabbs.UUCP>, alun@neabbs.UUCP (ALUN SAUNDERS) writes: <> Can anyone out there help me with the description of the signals on <> the 34 pin connector coming out of a standard 5.25" 1.2M floppy drive? <> I'm having problems with a drive telling me its not ready... <> < The ready/disk change line is pin 34 on your disk drive. Depending <on whether you have an AT or XT, the purpose of this pin should change. <Usually, ATs use this pin as disk change and XTs use this pin as ready. < <Hope this helps! It probably would have helped to add "you can probably solve the problem by somehow disconnecting pin 34 on your 360k drive. 'Somehow' includes cutting the wire out of the cable (ouch) or putting a piece of Scotch Brand Magic Mending Tape* (or suitable alternative) over the edge connector at location 34 (just wrap it around to the back side: you'll just be covering up one of the umpteen ground lines, anyway)." kEITHe * trademark by 3M, I bet...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Pinouts for floppy drive wanted Message-ID: <6965@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Date: 27 Feb 90 23:03:17 GMT References: <312963@neabbs.UUCP> <3523.25e9bf4a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 22