Hi everyone, the laptop it came from is an old compaq contura 430cx, the suspected pin outs that I have sofar appear below, this is from comparing the pins for the floppy connector in the advantech biscuit pc users manual with the pins given on the citizen web site for there laptop floppy drives. Hopefully in the next few days I'll be etching a pcb to test the theory, ill report on whether I get a boot drive or smoke! The motivation for all this is that since the hard drive is dead and im running short on dollars I figure the 64 MB of ram that's onboard should be sufficient to hold the processors playground, so if I can get the floppy running Ill beable to use a linux boot disk, load everything on to a ram disk and then swap the floppy's over and use it as a scratch pad till I can aquire a decent harddrive,(sort of like the olden days but with 64mb and a 233/586) regards Shane Any corrections would be appreciated before I see smoke! ######################################################################################### pin assignment floppy pin assignment floppy pins ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 GND 15 2 Density Select 11 3 GND 17 4 N/C ___7/13 (laptop reserved pins) 5 GND 19 6 N/C ___13/7 (laptop reserved pins) 7 GND 21 8 Index 2 9 GND 23 10 Motor Enable A 10 11 GND 25 12 Drive Sel B ___ignored since B drive 13 GND 14 Drive Sel A 4 15 GND 16 Motor Enable B ___ignored since B drive 17 GND 18 Direction 12 19 GND 20 Step 14 21 GND 22 Write Data 16 23 GND 24 Write Gate 18 25 GND 26 Track 0 20 27 GND 28 Write Protect 22 29 GND 30 Read Data 24 31 GND 32 Head Select 26? Side 1 Select 33 GND 34 Disk Change 6 Vcc (+5V) 1,3,5 ######################################################################################## Joshua Matthew Mayo wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Shane Norris wrote: > > Hi all, > > does anybody know if laptop slim line floppy drives are standardized > > connection wise? Where would one find the pin outs? The drive in > > question is a Teac fd-05hg with 26 pins, > > thanks > > Shane. > > What sort of computer did this drive come from? > > I've just started on my first wearable, starting from a cut-down > and repackaged Thinkpad 360. > Guess what... It's floppy drive is a Teac FD-05HG. > > The floppy drive in my Toshiba T1000SE (we've heard that sound before :) > also has a 26 pin flexible cable connector, but on a larger pitch. > > I really don't have any idea what the pinouts are, and I don't really > have a reason at this point to check it out properly, > but I have a theory. :) > > I _suspect_ the pinout to be similar to the standard desktop drives, > but with the pins not pertaining to just a single drive removed. > i.e. The reserved pins, Drive select 1, and the Motor enable pins (aka > Drive select 2 and 3) and their associated grounds. > That leaves us with 26 pins. > We still need to get power to the drive, and we don't nescessarily need > the index pin (do we? I know the drive doesn't have a sensor, but it might > be simulated) but I think the power is split among th usual ground wires. > > Curiosity demands further investigation. > I'll get back to you if I get around to checking things :) > > -Josh Mayo. > (Everything with a Grin :) > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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