[Coco] Need help (of course)

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Fri Dec 5 18:03:57 EST 2014


Most drives, both 5.25" and 3.5" were set up as drive 1 per IBM's cable 
twist format.  The drive jumpers might be unlabeled solder pads.  Many early 
3.5" drives had slide switches; 2 postions for 0 and 1 or 4 postion for 0, 
1, 2 and 3.
Bruce W.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill"

> Dunno, the single drives work great, even though the 5 1/4" is a 35 track. 
> Works well as drive 0. No jumpers anywhere on the drive.
>
> And the 3 1/2" works as well. I can use it as drive 0 OR drive 1, 
> depending where on the cable it is. No jumpers on this one, either.
>
> But together, they BOTH light up when either is accessed with a known-good 
> cable.
>
> I'm stumped!!
> 

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