jumper setting
on these old full bay 5 1/4 floppies to select the drive
ID? Any ideas?
YES, there is.
What make and model drive are you using?
Near where the cable attaches, there are jumpers for drive select.
Depending on the brand of drive, it might be break-out DIP, DIP switches,
solder pads, or plug-in jumpers.
If it's not immediately obvious and you don't haev the documentation for
that particular dirve, you can normally find the drive sleect jumpers by
tracing the connections from th drieve sleect pins on the edge connector.
You will typically find that each od the drive sleect pins goes to one
side o a jumper/switch the other sides of these jumpers are linked
together and go into the drive circuitry. One of the jumpers will be
closed, the others open. Just change which one is closed to the one
connected to the drive select line you want to use.
IBM PC used the SECOND position of those, (and the Tandon TM100 drive had
break-out DIP) and then played games with twisting parts of the cable.
Thos DIP shunt blocks are not that easy to find. There are at least 2
workarounds, though. One is to fit a DIL header plug into the socket and
solder wires across it for the jumpers you want conncted. The other,
which involves n osolderign at all, is that there are now some quite
small DIP swithces, about the size of a normal DIL IC. Fit one of those
in the socekt and you cna easily make/break the jumper connections.
Others used a plain cable and set the drive select.
Onme advantage of the 'IBM twist' is that the motor-on line for each
drive ended up on a differnet pin at the controlelr end. Thus the dirve
motors could be controlled independantly of each other.
-tony