J
J.Clarke
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Probably this has been already asked many times, but I am unable to
find a reference to it.
I have an almost new 2.88MB diskette drive, originally used on an
IBM PS/2 PC, which I would like to use with an ATX ASUS mainboard.
The drive has a 34-pin connector, visually identical to those of the
standard floppy drives, but no power connector. So I think it gets
the power from the 24-pin cable, which of course implies that the
pinout of this cable is not standard...
Where can I find some references about this ? I could build an
adapter, if only I had the relevant information.
Unless you already have floppies and old data you need to read,
don't
waste your time. 2.88M floppies are rare and expensive.
Here is a link to a normal floppy cable:
http://www.hardwarebook.net/connector/storage/internaldisk.html
I couldn't find one for 2.88M floppies.
The 2.88 meg drives also work fine as 1.44 meg drives and I've found
that using 1.44 meg diskettes formatted to 2.88 causes no problems.
OTOH, that's not much gain and a new diskette drive is 8 bucks, so
there's not much point to straining to use one.
If you really need the pinout for the cable, though, try asking on
comp.sys.ibm.ps2 and someone should be able to provide you either the
pinout or a link.
If you just want a diskette drive that can hold more than 1.44 meg try
an LS240--with the special diskettes it will hold 240 meg and can also
squeeze 34 meg onto a 1.44 meg diskette, but not in a way that is
convenient to use.