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From: jmack@b11.ingr.com (Cery McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: X-former cable pin-out
Summary: I use this for SIO-Driver (same as X-former)
Message-ID: <9768@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 1 Jan 91 02:20:59 GMT
References: <37166@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <37166@cup.portal.com>, Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell) writes:
> Hey, could some nice net-person post or e-mail me the pin-out for the 
> X-former cable?  (Atari 8bit disk drive to Atari ST interface).. I got 
> a pin-out, built the cable and it doesn't work!  I have two programs that
> could utilize it but it just plain don't work and it seems to be a simple
> cable and I am 99% sure it is not anything I did wrong...  
> 
>                ........Yonderboy@cup.portal.com


     1   3   5   7   9  11  13         1                       13
     o   o   o   o   o   o   o         o o o o o o o o o o o o o
                                        o o o o o o o o o o o o 
      o   o   o   o   o   o            14                     25
      2   4   6   8  10  12 
       9 Pin 8-Bit connector           25 Pin RS-232 male connector

   View looking at end of cable     looking at end of cable from ST
    Hint: look for small numbers on the 25 Pin connector.

connections:

	8-bit end		ST end

	   3			  11
	   5			   5
	   7			   7
	   2			   3
	  10			   1


Good luck!