Pinout for Next Cube Floppy

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Title: Pinout for Next Cube Floppy
Post by: peclark on March 11, 2024, 04:54:06 PM
Hi, this is my first post here. 

I've been experimenting with hooking up a gotek to my next cube and been working to reverse engineer the floppy pinout so I can adapt it.  I'm guessing there isn't much different between a standard floppy and this one except the power on the ribbon cable, and the 2.88 density sense pin... but maybe there are others.  Anyway, I couldn't seem to find anywhere this is documented and wondered if anyone here knows?

Here's what I've gathered so far:

Pin    Signal    Description        Pin    Signal    Description
1    ?    Is this used?                  2    DENSEL    Density Select 1=Low/0=High
3    ?    Is this used?                  4    RSVD    Is this used?
5    """+5V"""                            6    RSVD    Is this used?
7    """+5V"""                            8    INDEX#    Index
9    """+5V"""                           10    MOTEA#    Motor A Enable
11    """+5V"""                         12    DRVSB    Drive Select B
13    GND                                14    DRVSA    Drive Select A
15    GND                                16    MOTEB#    Motor B Enable
17    ?    Is this used?               18    DIR#    Direction Select
19    GND                                20    STEP#    Head Step
21    GND                                22    WDATA    Write Data
23    GND                                24    WGATE#    Floppy Write Enable
25    GND                                26    TRK0#    Track 0
27    ?    Is this used?               28    WPT#    Write Protect
29    GND                                30    RDATA    Read Data
31    GND                                32    HDSEL#/SIDE    Head Select / Side select
33    GND                                34    DSKCHG#    Disk Change

Pete
Title: Re: Pinout for Next Cube Floppy
Post by: barcher174 on March 11, 2024, 11:35:44 PM
Here you go:

https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/Hardware/Schematics/Turbo_slab/CSlab33-12.pdf
Title: Re: Pinout for Next Cube Floppy
Post by: peclark on March 12, 2024, 07:58:01 AM
Awesome!   Just what I needed, thanks very much!!
Title: Re: Pinout for Next Cube Floppy
Post by: peclark on March 16, 2024, 08:14:24 PM
There's a couple of pins that I can't seem to find specific details on, and hoping someone here knows.   I've attached the updated mapping, and wondering specifically about the following pins:

17  Media Type 1   Assuming the values of these signals define what type of disk is in the drive
21  Media Type 0   720, 1.44, 2.88 or 1.2?   I've found info for PS/2 drives, but guessing this isn't the same

2  Density Select 1   Are these pins used to allow the computer to tell the drive which density to use? 
6  Density Select 0  What values are associated with the various density?

4 - Device type id - is this like 0 for 1.44 drive and 1 for 2.88?   
Title: Re: Pinout for Next Cube Floppy
Post by: rmckayfleming on May 24, 2024, 03:27:19 PM
Did you make any progress on this peclark? I have a few Goteks and having them work with the NeXT hardware would be really helpful.

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