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I have removed one floppy from an A4000 and want to add it to another A4000 that already has got one. Now I have already found out that it´s not as easy as I thought.There seem to be 6 pins on the back of the floppy, and I assume that the standard setting is DF0. Now can anyone tell me how to set the other floppy so it will be recognized as DF1 ??? I prefer to ask it first before I start experimenting ...

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Re: Want to add 2nd internal floppy to A4000. How to set jumper ???
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2004, 06:30:38 PM »
AFAIK, you should only need to change the motherboard jumper (J351), not any jumpers on the drive itself.  At least this is the way it worked on my A3000.
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Re: Want to add 2nd internal floppy to A4000. How to set jumper ???
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2004, 07:09:20 PM »
Tried that.Then after startup my screen turns to light green (or is it yellow ??) ... tried every possible connection of the floppy cable ...
Now I removed the jumper again and use only one floppy.At startup I still get a light green screen but then the floppy boots up to OS 3.1 ... do I need to worry ???

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Re: Want to add 2nd internal floppy to A4000. How to set jumper ???
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2004, 07:22:56 PM »
Have tried again. Have placed jumper on 351 and connected two A4000 floppies. None of them boots up now unless I insert a bootable floppy in both and then they both boot up and then I get the Insert-floppy-kick3.1 screen ...

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Re: Want to add 2nd internal floppy to A4000. How to set jumper ???
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2004, 07:42:52 PM »
Sorry, it seems that the A4000s were shipped with dodgy cables.  Check the information here from the A4000 Hardware Guide.

http://www.titan.co.nz/amigaak/AA060213.htm
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