Kaypro II floppy identification?

19 Mar 2013

...

  jumper setting on these old full bay 5 1/4
floppies to select the drive
 ID? Any ideas?  
 In my Kaypro II, the Tandon M-100 drives use an IC-type  jumper for
 drive select, not the cable.  Remember to swap the terminating
 resistor too. 
WHile I agree that electrically the terminator should be in the last 
deive on the cable (furthest for mthe controller), has anybody ever had a 
problem with it being in the 'wrong' drive on a fairly short ribbon cable 
(as here)? That is, you ahve one termination resistor pack in the drive 
enarest to  the cotnrolelr and a 6" or so 'stub' linking to the second
drive.

As I said, electrically it's the wrong thing to do, but I've 
(accidentlaly) done it a few times and the machine has had no problems.

-tony

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Kaypro II floppy identification?