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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Re: floppy options
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Date: 14 May 91 04:51:35 GMT
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In article <1991May13.214125.26544@nntp-server.caltech.edu> 
madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:

>...  There is this 34-pin (if
>memory serves) berg connector on my 040 upgrade board that's just
>begging to have a drive plugged into it, but it remains unsatisifed.
>
>The drive in my PLI has a different part number (which I don't have
>handy right now--I can post it on request), and that drive should
>work in that socket as well, though I haven't tried this.  By the way,
>the drive in the PLI has no power connector, so it apparently gets
>power through the ribbon cable.

Wait.  As I understand it.  The PLI drive and other external floppy
drives are SCSI devices, while Sony MPX-111N is NOT.
Therefore, I don't think you can plug in the bare drive used
in PLI to the socket on the 68040 CPU board.

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