Wild-hair floppy drive question

[Tony Duell]

> 
> connecting a floppy as DS0:
> 
> if you're not willing to trace the jumpers on the drive (almost all have
> at least solder pads!), then cut the traces of pins 10 and 12 and put a
> jumper wire from pin 10 of the connector to where pin 12 used to connect.
> 
> ... or, do it like RS did,...
> short 10, 12, and 14 on the drive together.  Then remove pins from the
> connector on the cable, so that each connector has only one of 10, 12, and 14

Or (on a 3.5" drive, which has a male header-type connector), cut off pin 
12 on the drive and solder a wire between pins 10 and 12 on the drive 
PCB. Just make sure you don't cut off the wrong pin :-)

-tony