[Coco] Floppy drive setup HELP!

[Bruce W. Calkins]

A connector on your cable is on backwards or plugged in to the drive or 
controller backwards.

Bruce W.





> Hi all,
>
> For some time now, I have possessed several floppy drives, most 5.25" and
> two 3.5". I have been setting these up in different configurations and
> different cases from time to time, taking head of the drive number 
> jumpers.
>
> Lately I have been trying set them up again, but I cannot get any of the
> (loose) 5.25" drives to work anymore! I try to have one 3.5" drive set up
> with one 5.25" drive with the latter being drive 1. I set the jumpers on 
> the
> appropriate locations and connect the cable like I used to do. However,
> whenever there is a floppy in the 5.25" drive it just keeps on turning for
> no apparant reason. Whenever I try a DIR or a DSKINI I get an ?IO ERROR.
> Switching the drive numbers has no effect. The 3.5" drive works fine.
>
> Since this occurs for every 5.25" drive I try I suspect this may have
> something to do with the cable or jumper setup, but I have no idea what I 
> am
> doing wrong. Does anyone have some tips? It would be greatly appreciated. 
> I
> still have hundreds of old floppies I would like to save somehow.
>
> Cheers,
> Fedor