Wild-hair floppy drive question

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 4:45 PM


>>    Well, I found a couple of 3.5" drives that can be jumpered, and the
>> Altos doesn't recognize 'em at all.  I suspect it wants a drive that
>> does DD only.
>
> Wild guess. Pin 34 changed its definition at some point (IIRC it used to
> be Rdy/, it bacame disk_change/). Maybe that's your problem.
>
>>
>> > If not a TEAC FD55GFV will work as a DSQD 5.25".
>>
>>    Do you have the jumper settings for that?  TEAC's documentation
>> drives me up the wall.  I have an FD55GFR that I can make boot and read,
>
> The thing that really annoys me about the Teac documentation is that the
> jumpers are not explained in the service manual (and on later drives with
> one big ASIC, you can't really work them out). OK, they're probably in
> the OEM manaul, or something, but if all you have is the service manual,
> that's not a lot of help...
>
> -tony


I'll lookup the exact Teac jumpers but not only do you have to change the 
two speed jumper but you must make sure pin 2 is grounded to select the 
correct speed.

Randy
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