8 Oct
2005
8 Oct
'05
6:58 a.m.
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:34:41 -0700
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 10/7/2005 at 9:51 PM jim stephens wrote:
I don't believe so--Dell sells the Optiplex floppy with a formed cable
as a single unit. Here's a photo:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/images/products/large/340-8737.jpg
While the second floppy select probably exists on some pin in the
support chipset, I don't think that Dell ever intended that more than
one floppy would be used and so probably never wired the header for
it.
I can say semi-definitively that something serious is missing in the
logic. I haven't probed into the signals, but a second drive installed
on a connector crimped on before the twist at the end is found by the
BIOS and appears as a device in 'Windows Explorer' but does NOT work.
I'm
curious about the comment about second drive support missing. I
am curious why the
addition of a proper multiheaded cable doesnt
fix this?
they actually dont drive the drive select in the cable?
Just curious 