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Re: How to connect two floppy drives?

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In article <100a4b3$dohh$1@dont-email.me>,
Kalevi Kolttonen <kalevi@kolttonen.fi> wrote:
>I just asked chatGPT 

:-P

>whether Apple II floppy disk
>controller card support two drives and it answered
>yes. However, chatGPT claims that I am supposed to
>connect both floppy drives to the controller card
>using a *single* ribbon cable. Can this be true?

Nope.  If you're using period-correct Disk II floppy drives (or workalikes)
with the matching controller, there are two 20-pin headers on the controller
that will handle one drive each.

Later 5.25" drives didn't use a ribbon cable, but a round cable ending in a
DB-19 plug that plugged into a slightly different controller with a matching
jack (or into the floppy connector on a IIGS, IIc, or IIc Plus).  A second
drive would be daisy-chained off the first (except for the DuoDisk, which
was daisy-chained internally).

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How to connect two floppy drives? kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2025-05-17 13:52 +0000
  Re: How to connect two floppy drives? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2025-05-17 16:41 +0000
    Re: How to connect two floppy drives? kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2025-05-17 16:54 +0000
      Re: How to connect two floppy drives? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2025-05-21 17:52 +0000
        Re: How to connect two floppy drives? kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) - 2025-05-22 13:10 +0000
        Re: How to connect two floppy drives? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2025-05-24 23:05 +0000

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