The old 5 1/4 drives have nice little steppers in them. And the board to control it. I have tried hooking up an old PS/2 5 1/4 floppy drive positioning stepper up to the parallel port, using the step and direction connections, and grounding the motor on terminal. But no luck yet.
I get the pulse train from the port so I know that is working. Any ideas?
The motor locks when power is supplied to the drive PCB.
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