[Coco] drive motors

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at ramoth.org.uk
Fri Jul 12 14:03:35 EDT 2013


On 12/07/2013 18:04, Robert Hermanek wrote:
> In a two drive system, all working perfectly, is it normal that whether
> or not you are accesssing disk 0 or disk 1, drive motors on both drives
> spin?  The in-use light lights up properly on drive 0 or drive 1 as
> expected, just that both motors spin.

I believe this can happen in some situations depending on how the drives 
are jumpered. Some drives need both the motor on and appropreate
drive select to be asserted, some just use motor on.

Cheers.

Phill.

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