[Coco] double disk drive

[Ray Watts]

Ingenius!   I did my identical setup the hard way.  I made up two 34 
conductor ribbon pigtails, with regular 34 pin card edge connectors on 
both ends, and connected them to the 5.25" drive 0 and 3.5' drive 0. 
They hung out back of the drive case.  I then wired up a 34 pin 
 connector with the leads reversed which interfaced the drive cable with 
the proper drive.  It's still being used as my only means of converting 
5.25" disks to my CoCo systems.

Cheers, Griz
 

Bruce W. Calkins wrote:

>That's it.  I did it many years ago for my "super" disk setup.  Three 3.5"
>drives with a 5.25" switched as Drive Zero.
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>>So if i get you correctly, the switch basically reverses which drive is
>>plugged in where?
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>>>Can you wire up a reversing switch?  You will need to have the drive one
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>>>drive two lines from the controller go to the center terminals of a
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>>>pole double throw switch.  The lines from the drives will go to one set
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>>>outside terminals and then a pair of wires to cross over from that
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>>>terminal pair to the opposite terminals.
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>>>>Hello,
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>>>>I just upgrade my FD500 floppy drive.
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>>>>I add a 3 1/2" drive on it and I want to know how to add a switch that
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>>>>me select which of the 2 drives is the drive 0.
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>>>>Could you help me?
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>>>>Sylvain
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