Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Path: blue.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!uunet!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!mnementh From: mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas) Subject: Re: Pinout for DuoDisk cable needed Message-ID: Organization: Ministry of Love - Room 101 References: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 10:31:35 GMT Lines: 46 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) -- David Villegas (ENTP) mnementh@netcom.com San Francisco, CA villegas@csli.stanford.edu