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Offline SilverZguruTopic starter

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External floppy drive replace problem
« on: November 25, 2012, 08:05:45 PM »
Hi everybody!
My external floppy drive is almost dead, so I modified one regular pc floppy drive to support Disk change and ready signal and set the drive as DS1. Then I opened my external drive and noticed that it had odd 26pin microfloppy connection without power chord going to FDD.

So question is, where can I find 26pin to 34pin cable pinout?

Thanks!
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Re: External floppy drive replace problem
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2012, 02:26:06 AM »
It's not odd, it's old. There are 26-pin floppy drives for sale as many of the laptops and midi keyboards used them. I'm sure if you want to convert you will find info on this on the web.
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Re: External floppy drive replace problem
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2012, 04:24:14 PM »
Ok, I found one pinout from internet. Would this work?: http://www.martinruss.com/sy99adapter.html

And is there a possibility that it would hurt my Amiga?
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Re: External floppy drive replace problem
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2012, 09:11:48 PM »
So, I tried to make converter from pinout above, but Amiga wouldn't even start! All I got was black screen and from some reason internal fdd's motor was spinning.

plz anybody any ideas???
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Just some beginner stuff: 2 Amiga 500s, external FD, 512kb expansion mem, RGB Scart, some random joysticks :lol:, Amiga mouse (Tank model) and some floppies... And a dead Commodore 64C with Datassette cassette drive and RGB->composite wire. And some tapes, self made with computer and normal recordable cassette deck :)
 
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