[Coco] Floppy drive setup HELP!

[Fedor Steeman]

Thanks guys! I do believe I have the connector connected to the 5.25" drive
because there is no other way to do it, because of the little plastic
"septum" that I don't know the name of. But I will double-check, try another
cable and perhaps try some of the other suggestions. I might even try to get
my hands on a new cable from Cloud-9 or something.

Cheers,
Fedor

2009/1/9 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>


> On Friday 09 January 2009, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:

> >A connector on your cable is on backwards or plugged in to the drive or

> >controller backwards.

> >

> >Bruce W.

> >

> Ah yes, and the most obvious problem given the description.  But I have

> faith

> in my fellow man, and had falsely assumed that was done correctly so I

> jumped

> to other miss-configured hardware issues.  My bad.  Thanks Bruce, for the

> reminder about the glaringly obvious.  And I have egg on my face. Again...

>

> >> Hi all,

> >>

> >> For some time now, I have possessed several floppy drives, most 5.25"

> and

> >> two 3.5". I have been setting these up in different configurations and

> >> different cases from time to time, taking head of the drive number

> >> jumpers.

> >>

> >> Lately I have been trying set them up again, but I cannot get any of the

> >> (loose) 5.25" drives to work anymore! I try to have one 3.5" drive set

> up

> >> with one 5.25" drive with the latter being drive 1. I set the jumpers on

> >> the

> >> appropriate locations and connect the cable like I used to do. However,

> >> whenever there is a floppy in the 5.25" drive it just keeps on turning

> for

> >> no apparant reason. Whenever I try a DIR or a DSKINI I get an ?IO ERROR.

> >> Switching the drive numbers has no effect. The 3.5" drive works fine.

> >>

> >> Since this occurs for every 5.25" drive I try I suspect this may have

> >> something to do with the cable or jumper setup, but I have no idea what

> I

> >> am

> >> doing wrong. Does anyone have some tips? It would be greatly

> appreciated.

> >> I

> >> still have hundreds of old floppies I would like to save somehow.

> >>

> >> Cheers,

> >> Fedor

> >

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