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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!gude
- From: gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (David J W Emrich)
- Subject: Re: 3.5 Drive Setup..
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.163354.1383@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Organization: University of Western Australia
- References: <la60knINNftd@aludra.usc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:33:54 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- hho@usc.edu (*** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes:
-
-
- >Thank you allll so much for replying my problem about
- >NO ROM BOOT when I boot up a new system.
- >The problem is a badly setup 3.5 drive as A:, I replace the 3.5 with
- >5.25 and it works perfectly.. Thanks allll.. Oh, the problem with harddisk
- >is that I replaced the Future Domain with Adaptec controller, so after
- >I reformat, it boot off the SCSI drive perfectly..
-
- >Now, could you please help me setup the 3.5 :_)
-
- >It is a Chinon FZ-357 3.5 inch 1.44meg drive.
- >It has a bunch of switches: DS0, DS1, DS2, DS3, MM, MD, DC, RDY, and TTL/C-MOS
- >Which ones should I set? :-)
-
- >I still want it to be drive A:
-
- >Thank you :-)
- >H.
-
- If you have a "twisted" drive cable, set DS1 on and DS0,DS2,DS3 off.
- If the cable is straight, set DS0 on, and DS1, DS2, DS3 off.
- When I say twisted, and straight, I am referring to the ribbon cable
- having some of the wires (about 6 I think) reversed from the normal
- direction. That is a twisted cable. The straight cable is just pin to
- pin connected. The way the twisted cable works is that you set BOTH of
- the floppies to Drive 1 (if numbers are 0,1,2,3... If numbers are
- 1,2,3,4, both drives should be set to Drive 2). This would normally
- mean that both drives would be B, but because of the "twist" in the
- cable, one becomes A. The twisted one is A, the straight one is B.
-
- The only other one I am sure of is the TTL/CMOS one, which should be set
- to TTL (CMOS is for the lap-top computers).
-
-
- [dav] aka
- David Emrich
- gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
-