26 Oct
2006
26 Oct
'06
2:55 p.m.
On 26 Oct 2006 at 14:12, Kelly Leavitt wrote:
My question is what is the best order to turn things
on.
I've always turned the drive on before powering up the PC, and
turned the drive off after powering off the PC. Does this really
matter? I always make sure there is no disk in the drive before
doing any power cycling.
Given that signals on a floppy interface are active-low, I'm going to
venture that the sequence should be power to the CPU, then power to
the drive. This should prevent spurious drive head-loads, accidental
writes (even if you don't think you'll ever have a disk in the drive)
and other nicieites.
Similarly, powering down should be drive then CPU.
Or at least that's what seems reasonable.
Cheers,
Chuck