[Coco] Cable assistance

[gene heskett]

On Saturday, February 19, 2011 07:07:47 pm Richard Ivey did opine:

> ok.. I can live with the 5.25 being drive 0.
> 
> I have an existing twisted cable that allows me to use a 3.5, but it
> wont let the 5.25 work on the same cable.
 
Make sure that the 3.5 is both on the middle connector, and has its 
terminator R's removed.  Set both drives as address 1, then the cable twist 
will make the 5.25 on the end of the cable look like drive 0.

> So.. I could live with the 5.25 as 0 and the 3.5 as one.
> 
> I have a Fry's down the road.  Getting cables is not an issue.

I'm jealous. :)

> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Sat, February 19, 2011 10:35:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Cable assistance
> 
> On Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:32:50 am Steven Hirsch did opine:
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, gene heskett wrote:
> > > On Saturday, February 19, 2011 09:30:31 am Steven Hirsch did opine:
> > >> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, gene heskett wrote:
> > >>> Even that is of relatively little utility since I built this
> > >>> machine several years ago, as this $300 ASUS motherboard has an
> > >>> FDC that cannot deal with 256 byte sector disk formats regardless
> > >>> of what I tell it with setfdparm. (linux of course)
> > >> 
> > >> Gene,
> > >> 
> > >> You may want to keep your eyes open for an ancient ISA-bus
> > >> motherboard that can boot Ye Olde version of Linux or MS-DOS.  I
> > >> keep an early 90s Dell 486 around solely for the purpose of
> > >> reading/writing floppy media. It's fitted with a Compaticard IV
> > >> that can talk to 3.5, 5 and 8" floppy drives.  Install the free
> > >> uSoft TCP/IP stack and a junk-box ISA ethernet adapter and you
> > >> have the perfect "shop" machine.
> > >> 
> > >> It can also dual-boot (using LILO, remember that?) to Linux
> > >> 2.0.something.
> > >> 
> > >> I dislike running anything with the uSoft name on it, but for
> > >> utility purposes it's too handy to pass up.
> > >> 
> > >> Steve
> > > 
> > > I have such a box, has RH7.3 on it IIRC.  But getting to it to hook
> > > up a monitor and keyboard & mouse, all ps2 stuff as its USB is only
> > > partially usable, and that only after it is booted.  I need to
> > > clear it out from under the old desk and maybe put that mobo in a
> > > smaller box.  That one is an industrial sized steel tower about 32"
> > > tall & weighs about 30 pounds empty.  It has a 450 mhz K6-II in it
> > > and 384 megs of ram.  A monster, in its day. :)  Hasn't been
> > > powered up since I put DD-WRT on a similar but much smaller box,
> > > using it for a router.  Up till then, it was my firewall/gateway
> > > machine.  A whopping big 42 gig hard drive.
> > 
> > I keep a pile of IBM Type M keyboards in the garage loft for just such
> > purposes.  In fact, I use them on everything - though a PS/2 to USB
> > adapter when necessary.  Just cannot touch-type accurately on anything
> > else, since I learned to type on a selectric (dates me, I guess).
> 
> Thats 30 years newer than my mothers old Remington.
> 
> > > I have got to clean house in my man cave.  Just as soon as I find a
> > > good pattern to carve me and few friends on this list, a batch of
> > > round tuit's.
> > 
> > Tell me about it...  In recent years, I've started ridding myself of
> > the large, heavy classic items and have actually scraped down through
> > several archeological strata in the process.  My Corvus networking
> > and computer gear finally surfaced and I've been bringing my Omninet
> > network back to life.  Have Apple 2, 3, Macs and PC talking to it.
> > 
> > Someone on the list has a couple of CoCo Omninet interface prototypes,
> > but I haven't been able to convince him to part with them.  My pipe
> > dream is to write or reverse-engineer a driver to get the CoCo online.
> > 
> > Steve
> 
> Chuckle, rotsa ruck there Steve.  Now they just passed some new rule
> over at the landfill and I can't even get rid of some old glass
> monitors.


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