[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Fedor Steeman]

Sorry for the confusion, guys. Of course I meant the 34 pin floppy connector
on a PC, which is not IDE. I just need to put a male connector on the ribbon
cable instead of the standard female. Understanding from Steven Hirsch, this
is quite doable. Thanks for the help!

Cheers,
Fedor



2009/1/17 John Donaldson <johnadonaldson at sbcglobal.net>

> Fedor,
> Why are trying to use the IDE cabel to access a 5.25 floppy. Almost all
> motherboards have a Floppy controller and port. Just use a floppy cable and
> hook it up to the 5.25 floppy. I have a 486 machine with both a 3" and a
> 5.25 hooked that way.
>
> John Donaldson
>
>
>
> Fedor Steeman wrote:
>
>  Hi guys,
>>
>> I have been getting closer to the aforementioned "quest" to connect a CoCo
>> 5,25" floppy drive to a pc. I have now selected a drive that apparantly
>> can
>> be switched between 40 or 80 tracks BTW, so now comes the next question:
>>
>> How to connect a modern IDE cable connecter to this old drive? I have no
>> experience with the "crimping" that I have read about, but it seems
>> tricky.
>> What is needed for this? I suppose I need to clip off the original IDE
>> connector and then "crimp" and older one on to it. Would I need to twist
>> any
>> wires? Or are there any adapters available?
>>
>> Thanks for any input.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Fedor
>>
>> 2008/10/5 Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 10/5/08, Fedor Steeman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The drives are jumperable and they look like they could be used for
>>>> (earlier) PCs as well, so I have my hopes up...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you can configure the drive to respond as Drive 1 (not 0) on the
>>> CoCo, then it will likely work on the PC in that configuration.
>>> Setting a jumper to enable READY may also be required.
>>>
>>> Go to <http://www.nitros9.org/howto.html#dsk> and use the links there
>>> to download the fdrawcmd.sys driver and the CoCoDisk utility. These
>>> will allow you to access coco floppies on a Windows XP machine.
>>>
>>> Darren
>>>
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