[Coco] Floppy drive setup HELP!

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 10 January 2009, Fedor Steeman wrote:
>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

Turn it over at the controller then, it has no 'key'.  However, looking down 
on the top of the controller, with the drive cable on the right end, there is 
a marker on the cable connector indicating pin one.  It should be on the top 
back edge as its plugged into the controller, or is on my Disto 4n1 anyway.

>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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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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