3.5" floppy drive question(s)

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Saturday 11 October 2008 11:59, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>> There are a couple of problems however, most 1.44M drives are jumpered
>> to operate as drive 1 only, and cannot easily be changed, this can be
>> fixed however by swapping lines in the cable e.g. swapping 10 and 12
>> will make the drive respond as drive 0.
> 
> Hence the twist in the cable...

Sort of, to use a 1.44 as a normal drive you only need to exchange pins 
10 and 12 (which are the drive select lines), and not move the motor on 
line. The normal PC cable twist exchanges both.

Cheers.

Phill.

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