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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 2nd HD Drive in 4000 lights up
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 15:12:06 GMT
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- Dave Edwards (dave@aelitho.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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- [2nd floppy light comes on when first is accessed]
-
- : I bought mine when they first came out and had the same problem. I contacted
- : Power Computing who supplied a new ribbon cable for it. Some of the wires
- : have been switch around. They said the one in the 4000 was faulty.
-
- That is the case. From the A4KHG:
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- Many (perhaps most) A4000s were shipped with improperly-wired floppy
- cables. These cables had wires 3-5 twisted, instead of wires 4-6. These
- cables will work fine for a single drive, but will not properly connect a
- second drive. To use two drives that are both jumpered the same, the floppy
- cable should have both wires 4-6 and 10-12 twisted. A cable with wires 4-6
- twisted will require the drives to be jumpered as DS0 and DS1.
-
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