[Coco] Regarding disk drives

[Bill Barnes]

Not quite correct. For Drive 0, it would require different signals sent. drive 1 would work properly though. The signals needed to select and turn on drive 0 would not involve D1 and Motor signals... IIRC it was D0 and D2 signals were needed. To get it to work und DECB would require patching, OS-9 would require it too, and any program that bypassed DECB to access the floppies would run into problems without being patched (making them unusable on a non IBM cabled FDD system).

-Later!   -WB-    -- BABIC Computer Consulting.


--- On Fri, 1/2/09, John Eric <jet.pack at ymail.com> wrote:

> From: John Eric <jet.pack at ymail.com>
> Subject: [Coco] Regarding disk drives
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 11:53 PM
> Simple solution, crimp new connectors on a cable. However,
> I just had a thought. If I were to use IBM type floppy
> cables and jumper both drives as drive 1, that should work,
> right? I ask because I have a box full of 3M IBM type floppy
> + Tape drive cables - they have the standard 4 connectors at
> the end - 3.5" and 5,25" for Drive A (IBMspeak)
> and the same for drive B, separated by about 6" of
> cable, and then about 6" later, another 5.25" type
> connector intended for a tape drive. So, my thinking is, if
> I jumper two drives as drive 1, the end connectors will
> access them as drive 0 and 1 (because of the twist in the
> cable), and if I jumper a third drive as drive 2, the third
> connector should acces it as the third CoCo drive. So,
> before I order the IDC cable crimper and some connectors
> (the end that hooks to the FDC will have to be replaced with
> a CoCo type connector) - does this sound right?
> 
> Thanks - JEric
>