[Coco] Need help (of course)

[Arthur Flexser]

The problem with cutting the wire in the ribbon cable would be that cutting
the Drive 1 line to avoid its connecting with the first drive would also
prevent its connecting to Drive 1, farther down the ribbon cable.

Art

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
wrote:

> 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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