[Coco] Frustrated in Seattle

[Jim Cox]

Ed:

Are you actually in the Seattle area?  If so drop me a line.  Maybe I can
help.

-Jim Cox
Bellevue, WA.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:

> In response to questions raised by Mike Pepe in Redmond
>
> I'm using new cables created by Mark at Cloud-9
> The cable I am trying first, has a 5.25 connector at the end and a 3.5
> connector in the middle. No pins are missing or swapped.
> I am testing with the 5.25" as /d0 (using /dd40 and /d040) and the 3.25
> as /d1 (using /d180)
> The 3.25 drive has a terminating resistor pak installed.
> It is my understanding that DS0 and DS1 are selected by the controller
> and not the "wire swapping" like is done on MS-DOS. When I use my 5.25
> configurations, the cables are "straight thru" and the actual drives are
> jumpered as DS0 and DS1, so I assumed that the same configuration would
> work on the 3.25 drives.
>
> Ed
>
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