7 Apr
2005
7 Apr
'05
3:50 p.m.
Is your drive jumpered for "Motor ON on drive select"?
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Are you sure that Drive A on a PC won't work on a
straight cable?
Something in the back of my mind says that I used to change the drive
select jumper *AND* make sure a terminator was installed for the floppy
to work fine on a straight cable as Drive A. I do know that not having a
terminator installed (on the last drive of the string) can make for some
really strange and intermittent behavior on both HDs and Floppy Drives.
>
> On the hard drive cable the twist merely changed the drive select signals,
> on the floppy drive cable both the drive select and motor on gets twisted.
> The floppy drive cable must be twisted to have drive A work properly the
> hard drive can work with or without a twist.