Date   : Wed, 25 May 2005 13:24:03 +0100
From   : Philip Pemberton <philpem@...>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive compatibility

In message <1117019121.6376.34.camel@...>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:

> 5.25" floppy drives tend to be pretty configurable too via jumpers, so
> it may be you have a drive set up for a different system. In particular,
> isn't there something odd like PC drives are always jumpered for drive
> 1, support two drives only, and rely on the cable twist - whilst the
> rest of the world jumpers them for the actual ID (0 - 3) and don't use a
> twisted cable?

The problem is, although this drive seems to be configurable for DS0/DS1, it
has no other jumpers on it that I can see.
Looks like I need to track down a configurable 5.25" 360K drive then...
Even assuming the drive is running at 360RPM instead of 300RPM, shouldn't
*FORM 80 work fine, even though the drive is running faster? In my case it
error-18'd and error-0E'd...

I'll get the YE-Data drive out later and see if I can jury-rig it to run at
300RPM...

Or I might just buy a dual drive (maybe with one dead drive) and swap one of
the 5.25s for a 3.5 in a mounting caddy. Might be a bit easier.

Later.
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