Japanese PCs : One HxC, or two ?

HxC Floppy Emulator on PC88 / PC98 and compatible support
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Namida88
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Japanese PCs : One HxC, or two ?

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Many Japanese computers have two internal 5.25" drives.

And unfortunately the two drives are connected to the mother board with two separate cables.

I guess two HxC are needed.
But just in case I prefer to ask if there would be a possibility to connect only one HxC to emulate both drives.

Thank you always for your support !

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Re: Japanese PCs : One HxC, or two ?

Post by Jeff »

Namida88 wrote:Many Japanese computers have two internal 5.25" drives.

And unfortunately the two drives are connected to the mother board with two separate cables.

I guess two HxC are needed.
But just in case I prefer to ask if there would be a possibility to connect only one HxC to emulate both drives.

Thank you always for your support !
one drive should be enough. you just need to get a signal from the other connector with a wire. I need the pc88 schematic to confirm this.

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Post by Namida88 »

Jeff, thank you for your answer.

I may have difficulties to find the schematic.
Would a picture of the mother board be enough ?

If not, I guess I'll have to send you a PC-88 again :wink:

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