26 Aug
2002
26 Aug
'02
9:46 p.m.
Bingo ! I took both cases off and at first was dismayed since the "360k" has
a 30 pin edge connector and takes it's power from the host machine. Then I
saw that the TEAC drive had a 34 pin edge connector that was plugged into
the card with the 30 pin edge-c and a standard 5 1/4 floppy power plug.
The 502 has a dummy faceplate for a second floppy and 2 data 34pin
connectors and 2 standard 3 1/2 floppy plug types as you say and a
whopping big PSU that must support 2 drives. There's one single square 2pin
plug which doesn't have any visible connector on either drive.
The only mod needed would be to replace the small power with a large type.
That's great. When you don't have a HD, 2 floppies sure makes things
easier. I recall with no pleasure spending hours doing the disk-change
mambo copying programs off magazine disks on my Atari ST.
Lawrence
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In referring to the "360k" do you mean
the model (RS 25-1060) that shipped
IIRC for the 1000HX ( ?) ? I just checked my COCO M.502 drive and the edge
connector is slightly different. It would be nice to have a useable 2nd drive
for my CoCos.
Larry,
The case itself is not compatible with the CoCos, as the ribbon cable has
extra connectors for powering the drive... If you take the drive out of the
case, it'll be the standard connectors (except maybe power - just hack in a
standard "big plug" if necessary) and you can use the drive no problem with
your
CoCos.
With OS-9, you'll just need to sysgen a new boot floppy with the 360K DSDD 60Hz
/d1 driver; with RS-DOS you'll need to patch the ROMs, then reburn if you want
the changes permenant. Beware: The RS-DOS ROMS assume that both drives are the
same size, so only do the mods if you have 2 360K drives!
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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