[Coco] Re: Floppy Drive and OS-9

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 29 July 2006 22:53, Andrew wrote:
>All,
>
>Just wanted to thank you for all the help on this issue - I went out
>today and purchased some 34 cond ribbon cable and the IDC connectors
>(this stuff is getting more difficult to find), and put together my
>custom cable.
>
>It turned out a slight bit (3-4") shorter than the OEM cable, because
>Fry's only sold the ribbon cable in 3 foot lengths instead of bulk.
>Plus, I needed extra space for the "twist" in the cable between the two
>drive connectors. I needed to make the space larger, because drive 1 has
>its connector in the middle instead of on the side. It is also upside
>down, so I had to put one connector on one side of the cable, and the
>other on the other side. Then I split the cable every 11 conductors so I
>could twist it properly to get it to fit right.
>
>I also had to add a power extension dongle so I could get the power
>routed right. The nice thing about this dongle, though, is that it has
>an extra 12V output for a fan, so I might add a crossflow fan to the
>power supply to help it cope with the extra load from the second drive.
>
>Both of my 5.25 DSDD floppy drives work great, both under DECB and OS-9.
>I now need to find some posterboard to make a couple of drive head
>"keepers".
>
They are only required for shipping purposes, just close the levers when 
theres no disk in them, they'll be fine.

>Thanks again!
>
>-- Andrew L. Ayers
>    Glendale (Phoenix), Arizona

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