On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 at 17:54:10, Dave wrote:
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>On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, ZN wrote:
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>> Well, yes, there's just one problem: they are from IBM and have NO jumpers.
>> It still may be possible to get them to work on a GC/SGC, I'm looking into
>> it.
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>I believe most IBM floppies have a 0 ohm link on the board, which if
>removed decides the 0/1 drive ID... I remember modifying a batch of IBM ED
>drives a few years ago for use with Acorns...
... and drives often have DS0/1 links as solder blobs on the board.
I have yet to see DS2/3 - such is the power of the PC steamroller.
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