I recently picked up a DDI-6 and i believe that i can connect and FD-1 to the disk interface on the DDI-6. The reason is to make physical copies of software to load from disk
The process should be straight forward i believe
1.) Remove pin 10 from a 34pin cable
2.) Disconnect the power from inside the FD-1 (i am actually not sure why this is the case but anyway...)
3.) Connect the 34pin cable to the FD-1 and DDI-6
From there its just a case of loading parados and copy from DSK(virtual) to 3" disc (physical)
The issue is that every floppy cable i have has an insertion notch in the middle and on 1 side of the connector. This would allow me to connect to the DDI-6 but on the FD-1 end the middle notch is replaced by two notches on either side of the connector. This makes insertion impossible
For those that have done this. Is it just a case of trimming the notches off? or is there some magic cable i am not aware of to accomplish this task
A standard PC floppy cable should probably work.
2) is required as the FD-1 injects 5V on some of the GND lanes. The DDI-6 design probably does not reflect this (and I also don't understand why he's doing that).
Quote from: eto on 11:05, 23 January 25A standard PC floppy cable should probably work.
2) is required as the FD-1 injects 5V on some of the GND lanes. The DDI-6 design probably does not reflect this (and I also don't understand why he's doing that).
As I said. Every floppy cable I have will not fit into the FD-1