Unexpected floppy behavior...

[Pete Turnbull]

On Mar 20 2005, 19:20, Bill Sudbrink wrote:

> After a good bit of
> trying to figure out what was wrong, I discovered that the
> +5 volt pin in the power connector I was using for the #2 (B)
> drive had pushed out of the nylon plug so that the drive was
> unpowered.  Having either of the drives unpowered on the cable
> caused the other drive to screw up.  The two drives cooperate
> just fine when both have power.  I don't remember ever seeing
> this kind of problem before... I seem to remember having unpowered
> drives hanging off of cables with no ill effects.  I guess that
> some of the signals (write gate for instance) must be getting
> pulled low by the unpowered unit.  Is this normal floppy
> behavior and I'm just remembering wrong?

Usually that's OK.  Is perhaps the one without power also the one with
the terminators, or do neither have terminators?

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York