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Stupid floppy drive hardware question!

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From: John Navitsky
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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From: johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Stupid floppy drive hardware question!
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:15:44 GMT
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