[Coco] Need help (of course)

[Bruce W. Calkins]

Or identify the wire and cut that.
Bruce W.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Flexser"

> Well, this is really a very easy problem to fix.  You just need to prevent
> the Drive 0 line from reaching Drive 1 and vice versa.  Once you've
> identified which pins those are in your connectors, yanking one pin out of
> each connector should be pretty easy.  Others here, I'm sure, can provide 
> a
> more detailed how-to.
>
> Art
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I was hoping to build a couple of drives so I could copy files from
>> 5 1/4s to 3 1/2s.
>>
>> Oh, well
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Arthur
>> Flexser
>> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 3:47 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Need help (of course)
>>
>> I believe that the drives lacking jumpers is the reason why Tandy used
>> pulled pins on the connector for drive selection on the drives for old
>> CoCos.  Sounds like your 5-1/4" drive is one of those requiring it.  Your
>> problem is that both drives are selected at once.
>>
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