11 Oct
2008
11 Oct
'08
11:37 a.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Saturday 11 October 2008 11:59, Phill Harvey-Smith
wrote:
Sort of, to use a 1.44 as a normal drive you only need to exchange pins
10 and 12 (which are the drive select lines), and not move the motor on
line. The normal PC cable twist exchanges both.
Cheers.
Phill.
--
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.
There are a couple of problems however, most
1.44M drives are jumpered
to operate as drive 1 only, and cannot easily be changed, this can be
fixed however by swapping lines in the cable e.g. swapping 10 and 12
will make the drive respond as drive 0.
Hence the twist in the cable...