Subj : 2.88 MB Floppy Operation
To   : Rich Wonneberger
From : Lee Aroner
Date : Sat Mar 24 2001 01:22 am

RW> *** Quoting Vitus Jensen to Mike Luther dated 03-16-01 ***
> PS: I *do* have used 2.88 floppy drives in the past and there is just
> now such a drive in front of me.  Unfortunately it's from a PS/2 and
> does not have a power connector.  Made by Mitsubishi, manufactured for
> IBM Corporation in 1993.

RW> I have seen many of the 2.88 floppy drives at work in
 > disposal.  All the ones I looked at did not have the power
 > plug as you stated, and I azzumed that was the way they
 > all come.

RW> Do you (or anyone) know if there is an adapter for these
 > drives to use them in normal systems??

RW> If I could get a pin out of the single connector, maybe one
 > could be fabricated with a break out type box??


  There is a page that describes some of the various pinouts that
  IBM used on the PS/2 drives, although I don't have it handy at
  the moment. Search on Google if you really want to go through the
  pain.

  The problem is that IBM used various different pins of a special
  single cable to connect the PS/2 2.88 to the MB. Trying to adapt
  a PS/2 drive to a non-PS/2 MB could theoreticaly be done, but you
  might damage the MB in the trying and the amount of time required
  would be prohibitive.

  I have a small supply of brand new Sony 2.88 drives for standard
  MBs availabe for $60 ea including shipping in the lower 48.

                                      LRA


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