The 26-pin connector on these floppy drives are not easy to get hold of, I solved this by soldering a piece of floppy cable directly to the drive's controller. Adapters are also available but tend to be a bit expensive. Also, since these are made for PC's they would require a bit of modification anyway.
| Laptop floppy | Falcon floppy | ||
| Signal | Pin | Pin | Signal |
| +5V | 1 | +5V | |
| Index | 2 | 8 | Index |
| +5V | 3 | +5V | |
| Drive select 0 | 4 | 10 | Drive select 0 |
| +5V | 5 | +5V | |
| Disk change | 6 | 34 | Disk change |
| NC | 7 | NC | |
| Ready | 8 | NC | |
| Drive Enable 0 | 9 | 16 | Motor on |
| Motor Enable 0 | 10 | 16 | Motor on |
| Density | 11 | 2 | Density |
| Direction | 12 | 18 | Direction |
| NC | 13 | NC | |
| Step | 14 | 20 | Step |
| Ground | 15 | 1 | Ground |
| Write Data | 16 | 22 | Write data |
| Ground | 17 | 3 | Ground |
| Write Gate | 18 | 24 | Write gate |
| Ground | 19 | 5 | Ground |
| Track 0 | 20 | 26 | Track 0 |
| Ground | 21 | 7 | Ground |
| Write Protect | 22 | 28 | Write protect |
| Ground | 23 | 9 | Ground |
| Read Data | 24 | 30 | Read data |
| Ground | 25 | 11 | Ground |
| Side 1 Select | 26 | 32 | Side select |
Laptop floppy drives have no separate power connector. Connect the 5V-pins to the 5V-pin (red wire) on the Falcon floppy connector.
The Ground pins on the laptop floppy drive can be connected to any of the odd pins on the Falcon floppy cable.