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Offline DrDekkerTopic starter

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4 X Floppy Drive Support on Internal Connector?
« on: November 06, 2007, 01:07:14 PM »
Since there are four drive selects (DS0-DS3) on the internal floppy drive connector - does this mean that (in theory and a bit of jiggery-pokery) four drives can be installed on this connector?

I would assume that four drives would be stretching it a bit - but how's about two drives?  A possibility?

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Re: 4 X Floppy Drive Support on Internal Connector?
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2007, 03:19:04 PM »
Thanks for the responses guys - really appreciated!

@ doctorq - thanks for the link.  A second drive on the internal connector would be a really neat solution (and all I need really) and I'm now wondering if a DIY hack can be done based on the one in the link.  I'll investigate further.....
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Re: 4 X Floppy Drive Support on Internal Connector?
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2007, 12:54:31 PM »
Well - I've sort of got two floppy drives working on the internal connector using a simple cable hack.

DF0: works perfectly, whilst DF1: recognises disk changes but can't read the disks.  All I get is 'DF1????'.

When clicking on the DF1: icon I get a 'no default tool' error.

Any ideas what the cause could be?  Would the signal inverter/RDY hack be the solution?

TIA.  
A1200, M-Tec 1230 @28MHz, FPU, MMU, 8Mb fast ram, SCSI card, 512Mb HD, Power CDROM drive, PS2 optical mouse