Motorola Exormacs - disk cable

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Mon Sep 10 14:15:35 CDT 2007


On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
> We've just acquired a Motorola Exormacs system, which is sadly without its
> floppy drive cable (40 pins on the Exormacs side, 50 on the 8" floppy unit
> (Exordrive III I believe).
> I suspect the floppy side is just straight-through to the drives, but can
> anyone confirm that, and does anyone know the pinout on the system unit side
> of things?

Better check that!
"normal" 5.25" floppy is 34 pin.  40 pin implementations, such as some
PS/2s put power on those other 6 pins.

34 to 50 pin cabling information is readily available.




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