Re: Floppy Cables & "twists"

2022-07-13 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
I'll add that just switching the motor and select lines does mean that both the internal drive and the external drive must have termination on all the other (input) lines. That probably accounted for my "too low drive current" issue. You could switch all of the lines, but that may be easier said

Re: Floppy Cables & "twists"

2022-07-13 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 7/12/22 22:08, Dave Dunfield via cctalk wrote: > After recently selling my ImageDisk system, and having a few spare older PC... I ran into a similar situation with a newer-than-P3 single-drive motherboard. I'd switch from the internal 3.5" 1.44M drive to an external 5.25" 360K drive.It tur

Floppy Cables & "twists"

2022-07-13 Thread Dave Dunfield via cctalk
After recently selling my ImageDisk system, and having a few spare older PC mainboards - I decided to make another - I did find a board that seems to have a decent FDC - it does all single density formats (many don't). Alas, it is "slightly newer enough" to only implement one floppy drive on it's