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"Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > 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

It is simple, but like anything new it can be a pain to get it working the
first time.

I run 3.5" drives on my system and really prefer it.  I have not hooked up a
5.25" in over two years, then just to transfer disks.

As I stated in a previous posing if you need any help building a new cable
let me know.

Randy