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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 and external GVP DD floppy drive
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 13:26:10 GMT
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- Gary Goldberg (76236.3302@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
- : I have an external DD GVP brand floppy drive which has always
- : worked fine with A500s as df1:; however I've never been able to
- : get it to work with my A4000/040, where it would be df2:
-
- : Someone suggested that some switch has to be thrown to enable
- : it to be recognized as df2: The only switch I see in an external
- : one, which doesn't work in either position with the A4000.
- : Is there an INTERNAL switch somewhere? Or some software tweaking
- : to be done somewhere?
-
- J351 is an internal jumper on the motherboard. It's underneath the
- internal hard disk, and needs to be set to enable an external double
- density drive (but not high density). It's called DF1 Enable but that's
- probably misleading; it should probably be called External Double Density
- Enable.
-
- /* Auto-pointer to the A4000 Hardware Guide */
- More information on this topic is found in the A4000 Hardware Guide,
- which is available from your favorite Aminet ftp site. The archive
- is in the hard/misc directory, and is called a4khard_v3.lha.
-
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