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IBM PS/2 DBA Pinout

PCATPCAT
edited January 2017 in Hardware
Exactly as the title says, I need the pinout for a DBA hard disk.

I've got the drive, but no PS/2 system capable of using it. I would like to make some kind of adaptor to power it up, since it seems to be powered from the computer's motherboard.

Is there somewhere I can get this, or some sort of tester I can use to make sure it works correctly?

(Sorry about all the threads I've made, I've got a lot of questions.)

Comments

  • IconIcon
    You'll have to be more specific. IBM's proprietary ESDI DBA drives varied from (PS/2) model to model. If you're attempting to build an ESDI to IDE adapter, I believe that will not work.


    http://ohlandl.ipv7.net/misc/ESDI.html

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... kZeeh1LwCM
  • PCATPCAT
    I plan on just attaching power to the drive to check if it's even worth trying to find a system to go with it. If it doesn't work it'll probably be turned into a clock or a speaker, since I have no real interest in PS/2 equipment.

    There is a notch at one end of the connector with two pins on each side of the board, I'm not sure how this helps.

    The disk is 60MB. If needed I can put a picture somewhere for further detail.

    Happy New Years.
  • IconIcon
    I forgot to ask, but which PS/2 model are you using? This would greatly help as the Model 30 and model 50 used two different types of connectors on the motherboard (pins versus flat-edge).
  • PCATPCAT
    Icon wrote:
    I forgot to ask, but which PS/2 model are you using? This would greatly help as the Model 30 and model 50 used two different types of connectors on the motherboard (pins versus flat-edge).

    I don't have a motherboard to test it with. The disk is flat edge.
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