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External Floppy Cable

How to make a floppy cable for an external drive:

Cut a Six foot length of 34 conductor ribbon cable.

Connect the ribbon cable to the DB-37 male connector with pin 1 of the ribbon cable (red stripe) connecting to pin 21 of the DB-37 connector. Pins 1, 2, and 20 of the DB-37 connector will be the only pins left unconnected.

Connect the other end of the ribbon cable to a 34 pin IDE edge card connector (for 5.25" drives) and a 34 pin IDS socket (for 3.5" drives). Pin one of the ribbon cable should be opposite the triangular pin one indicator on the IDS socket, which is backwards, but this is standard for most 3.5" floppy drives. The IDE edge card connector usually has a tab between pin 4 and pin 6 so make sure that this is on the pin 1 side of the ribbon cable.