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Re: Dual Floppy Woes

From	someone@not.me
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: Dual Floppy Woes
Date	2025-01-26 06:06 -0500
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:14:43 +1100, Robert Chippendale
<rchipp@sdf.org> wrote:

>Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 1/25/2025 2:32 AM, Robert Chippendale wrote:
>>> I recently picked up two floppy drives at $5 each, and installed them 
>>> both into my computer, replacing the single floppy drive it had.
>>>
>>> Now, I'm having a very curious problem: the drives seek on boot, and 
>>> show up properly, but whenever I try to use one of them, with any 
>>> disk, I get a 'drive not ready' error message.
>>>
>>> The cables are not plugged in upside-down, and I did change the 
>>> configuration in the BIOS setup.
>>>
>>> I should be very glad if someone could help me. Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> 5.25 inch or 3.5 inch ?
>> 
>> Do you have a floppy connection cable with the twisted cable for the 
>> second drive ?
>> 
>> Lynn
>> 
>
>Thanks for replying. They are both 3.5 inch drives, and I do have a 
>cable with a twist in it.

Memory is hazy, but I seem to recall some drives had a master/slave
jumper that if set properly would work on a cable without the twist,
but if not set, then required the twist (or vice-versa--it's been a
long time).  My memory also thinks the drive at the end of the cable
was the master and the one inthe middle was the slave, but again, my
memory on this shouldn't be trusted!

Good luck1
--Bob

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  Re: Dual Floppy Woes bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-01-25 17:59 +0000
    Re: Dual Floppy Woes Robert Chippendale <rchipp@sdf.org> - 2025-01-27 10:47 +1100
  Re: Dual Floppy Woes Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-01-25 22:45 -0600
    Re: Dual Floppy Woes Robert Chippendale <rchipp@sdf.org> - 2025-01-26 17:14 +1100
      Re: Dual Floppy Woes someone@not.me - 2025-01-26 06:06 -0500
      Re: Dual Floppy Woes jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2025-01-31 01:31 +0000

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