P112

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: A minor point, . . . On 5150/5160/5170, the SECOND drive is a straight cable, FIRST drive is crossed. Thus, drive A: is at the end of the cable, B: is in the middle of the cable. The P112 manual https://661.org/p112/files/p112-doc.pdf Page 10 calls for the reverse, with FIRST drive before the twist, SECOND drive after the twist. IF that is correct, then your first drie is straight through. That also means that an unkeyed cable can be reversed, as one more to try. Termination is rarely an issue with 3.5 inch drives, and not usually the problem with 5.25". 5.25" has explicit provision for termination, but wrong termination usually results in slightly less reliability, not often a total failure to read. I did not see any mention of the disk format. If it is 512 bytes per sector MFM, with sequential sector numbering, then even USB drives should work for making disks. A different sector size, or even numbering sectors from 0, would be problematic for some USB drives.