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- From: dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek)
- Subject: Second Diskette Drive on Z386/SX question?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.205932.24139@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Organization: University of New Brunswick
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:59:32 GMT
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- I have an "old" Zenith 386/SX 16 MHz, the one in the "large" case. It
- has three drive bays, from top to bottom:
- 5 1/4" -- currently empty
- 3.5" -- currently a 3.5" 1.44 M Diskette Drive (A: drive)
- 3.5" -- durrently a 40 M hard drive (C: drive)
- This is the configuration as purchased.
-
- I would like to add a 1.2 M 5 1/4" diskette drive, which I would like to
- be drive B:, keeping the 3.5" drive as A (due to some software dependencies).
-
- The documentation which came with the system implies that the top drive,
- i.e. the 5 1/4" if added, must be the A: drive.
-
- The machine comes with a floppy drive cable which looks like this:
-
- controller 3.5 3.5 5 1/4
- plug --------plug 1---twist----plug 2------plug
-
- and the 3.5 plug2 is connected to the drive A. I assume that the idea
- is that if a 5 1/4 drive is added at the top, it would use the
- 5 1/4 plug, and the existing 3.5 drive would be plugged into "plug 1"
- instead of "plug 2" thus putting it before the twist. (Am I correct?)
- Thus the 5 1/4 would become drive A: and the 3.5 would become drive B:
- (Am I correct?).
-
- As a solution, I have been loaned a cable which looks like:
-
- controller 5 1/4 3.5 3.5
- plug---------plug--------plug1---very long------twist-----plug 2
-
- The assumption is that I can run the the cable from the controller
- first to the 5 1/4 drive, then use the very long run to loop
- back to the lower 3.5 which would use plug 2 (after the twist).
- The assumption is that this accomplishes what I need. (Is that
- correct?)
-
- Are there any problems with this solution which can be forseen?
-
- Are there any other possibilities? What are the advantages/disadvantages?
-
- Thanks for your assistance.
-
- dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
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