Thanks Derek Can I purchasea ready made cable cable from you to test it? I can pay via paypal or cash Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] modern floppies and gold card
> Hi, Norman, > > Older floppy drives have a switchable resistor to select the drive 0 -3 > which refers to FLP1_ to FLP4_, but the modern PC HD drives have a > resistor soldered onto the drive select part of the board to permanently > select drive 1. The cable to the I/O card or motherboard has a twist in > the control lines, which allows Drive 1 and Drive 2 to be selected. > > To get PC floppy disk drives to work on a QL Disk Interface i.e. > Supergold card, Gold card, a another cable is required with the drive > select wires going to Drive 0 for FLP1_ and Drive Select 1 for FLP2_ > > I think I had some cables made up. > > Derek > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Morning Michael, >> >> >>>> Is any way to connect a moderd floppy with GOLD CARD? >>>> >> >> I'm not sure what you mean. I used to have a Gold Card and it was able to >> run the modern3.2 MB ED drives simply by plugging them into the floppy >> interface. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Norman. >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
