Mine is the same, I think they came from the Amiga Technologys factory like that so they could use standard Sony PC floppy drives, which is what you'll probably have.
Wires 2 and 34 are crossed over in order to put the ready and diskchange signals onto the correct pins of the drive.
If you suspect your cable is intermittent, just make another one exactly the same, or otherwise get a proper Amiga drive and use a standard 34 way ribbon cable.
While on the subject, A4000T users will know that the motherboard SCSI and IDE controllers use 2nd.scsi.device and scsi.device
On mine, scsi.device is for the IDE controller, and 2nd.scsi.device is the SCSI controller. Are they ALWAYS like that, or do they change over on some machines/setups??
