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From: mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)
Subject: Re: Pinout for DuoDisk cable needed
Message-ID: <mnementhCt13wn.Auz@netcom.com>
Organization: Ministry of Love - Room 101
References: <CszJ0w.1I5@pts.mot.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 10:31:35 GMT
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kburtch@xvnews.unconfigured.domain wrote:
>I recently got a DuoDisk drive, and I have the adaptor, but I have no cable.
>The cable coming off the back of the card ends with a DB19, and the drive
>has a DB25 on it. (?) I thought someone was being strange, and trying to
>adapt a //c external drive to it, untill I got another DuoDisk controller
>with the same cable. (odd)
>
>Does anyone have any idea what the pin connections are? I would like to be
>able to use my drives.
You can still buy DuoDisk cables but the cheapest ones I've seen are $17
each. If you don't have trouble finding a DB19 connector, you can just
modify a cheap DB25 cable:
DB-25 male DB-19 male
---------- ----------
1 (no pin)
2 - 1
3 - 18
4 - 2
5 - 15
6 - 19
7 - 6
8 - 9
9 - 3
10 - 4
11 - 17
12 - 10
13 (no pin)
14 - 4
15 - 11
16 - 12
17 - 13
18 - 14
19 - 7
20 - 8
21 - 3
22 (no pin)
23 - 5
24 - 16
25 (no pin)
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David Villegas (ENTP) mnementh@netcom.com
San Francisco, CA villegas@csli.stanford.edu