[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[John Donaldson]

This is my COCO Emulator system. I t has a 5.25 40ATrack drive and a 
standard 3" PC drive.

John Donaldson

Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> John Donaldson wrote:
>
>> 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 think he probably means IDC connector, or alternalty IDE-like 
> connector, after all most PCs use a female 34way IDC for the floppy 
> which is similar to the 40way used for the IDE. As opposed to the 
> female edge type connector that the CoCo and Dragon disk controler 
> boards use.
>
>>                                I have a 486 machine with both a 3" 
>> and a 5.25 hooked that way.
>
>
> Ohh do you mean a 3" drive, as in the ones used by a whole bunch of 
> Amstrad (and Sinclair) machines ?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Phill.
>


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