[Coco] Floppy drive setup HELP!

[Gene Heskett]

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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