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Article #420Re: Nitros problems
From: Greg Andrzejewski
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:02
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:02
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"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message news:LAfNc.4150$Mp1.3260@bignews4.bellsouth.net... > Just curious did that get you going? If so I think you'll like 3.5" drives > better. > Randy Unfortunately, no. I swapped the connectors that correspond to wires 10 and 12 on the card-edge to pin header converter. I then attatched another card-edge connector on the tandy floppy cable. The one that was on the cable alrady was too close to the second connector to allow me to connect it to the smaller 3.5" drive. That resulted in both drives spinning when any commands are entered. Then I tried with just the 3.5" drive connected and disk basic wouldn't boot. Just for the heck of it is tried attatching a pin header connector to the tandy floppy cable. This resulted in me being able to address the existing 5.25" drive, but commands to the 3.5" drive just caused the motor to spin, the LED did not come on, and an I/O error was reported. The process of trying to get the pin header connector in the cable pretty well mangled the connector, so I decided to try another. Same results. Only this time while trying to install the pinheader connector, the pliers cut through wire 1 in the tandy cable. Rather than try to fix it, I've decided to start fresh with a new floppy cable altogether. -Greg
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