Hi Michael, Yes you buy some cables, contact me off the mailing list.
All you do is straighten in the twist in the cable, then twist wires 10,11,12 which directs DS0 (FLP1) from the disk interface to DS1 on the Disk drive. The other connector can be connected to FLP2, as it is directed to DS1(Drive Select 1) The motor on line is common to all drives. If you want to do it yourself. Get a PC floppy disk cable and take off the plug located at the end of the cable with the twist. Carefully remove the twisted cable from plug. Straighten out the twist, which is wire 10 to 16. Separate wires 10 to 12 and twist them. Press the wires back into the plug. This will allow a PC floppy disk drive to be used on a Super Gold Card, Gold Card at High Density. If you use anything else like a Trump Card or Sandy SuperQ Board they only support 1440 Sectors or 720K formatted disks. Derek Dr M. Hanias wrote: > Thanks Derek > Can I purchasea ready made cable cable from you to test it? I can pay via > paypal or cash > Michael > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Derek Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:38 AM > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] modern floppies and gold card > > > >> Hi, Norman, >> >> Older floppy drives have a switchable resistor to select the drive 0 -3 >> which refers to FLP1_ to FLP4_, but the modern PC HD drives have a >> resistor soldered onto the drive select part of the board to permanently >> select drive 1. The cable to the I/O card or motherboard has a twist in >> the control lines, which allows Drive 1 and Drive 2 to be selected. >> >> To get PC floppy disk drives to work on a QL Disk Interface i.e. >> Supergold card, Gold card, a another cable is required with the drive >> select wires going to Drive 0 for FLP1_ and Drive Select 1 for FLP2_ >> >> I think I had some cables made up. >> >> Derek >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Morning Michael, >>> >>> >>> >>>>> Is any way to connect a moderd floppy with GOLD CARD? >>>>> >>>>> >>> I'm not sure what you mean. I used to have a Gold Card and it was able to >>> run the modern3.2 MB ED drives simply by plugging them into the floppy >>> interface. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Norman. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QL-Users Mailing List >>> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
