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Article #19599Stupid floppy drive hardware question!
From: John Navitsky
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:15
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:15
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Hello,
I've a silly question. I have a system that has a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy
disks. I'd like to remove the 5.25" (so I can use it's bay). The
system uses a combined floppy / hd controller. The fd's are controlled
by a ribbon cable that has connectors for both floppy disks. Disconnecting
the 5.25" results in the system complaining about a FD controller failure.
examination of the drives does not revial any obvious terminators, etc.
I was able to note that the drives appear to work when swapped positions
on the cable. Note it did not help when I re-configured the bios setup
to tell it the 5.25" was not there. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-john
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!johnn From: johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) Subject: Stupid floppy drive hardware question! Message-ID: <1993Jan10.081544.26459@eskimo.com> Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<= Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:15:44 GMT Lines: 19