A2000 - Removing floppy drive

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hi,

the df0 floppy drive of my A2000 destroys all the disks I put in. I'd like to run the A2000 with two floppy drives, so I'll remove the bad drive and connect an external drive.

Question: Do I have to jumper the remaining df1? Or will the system detect it automatically as the new df0?

Thanks in advance

textory

[textory]

df1 has a lot of possible jumper settings... there are 8 pins and 5 jumper on it. Really bad that I got no digicam to post a picture of it.

I'm sure I'll have some funny hours testing each one. I hope someone in the forum has a very good idea.

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Hi,

@adz

sorry that it took some time answering.

The df1 in my A2000 is a Chinon FB 354 Rev. A (the bad one df0 is a Matsushita JU-363-282 (with a Sankyo board) with 12 or 14 Pins and lots of Jumpers... scary!)

It has a Jumper with 3 Pins... (and I guess there are not many choices... ;-)

1 3 5
o o o
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@shaf

thanks for reminding me on the twisted cable ;-)

@melott

I didn't know that I have to change a jumper setting on the MoBo in addition to change settings on the drive... thanks!

Two different drives... I bet the Chinon is not original, maybe the Matsushita either. Anyone around who knows something which drives were used originally?

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Hi,

@adz

yes, very useful!

@PaSha

You are right! Of course there are 6 numbers on the back of the board an 6 soldering. Only three pins visible, and 1+3 (or 2+4) are connected.

I'll try all possible settings... let's see what happens.

Thanks
Stefan