A2K SECOND FLOPPY
I have seen several messages go by written by people trying to get
a second A2K floppy to work. I wrote about this briefly a while
ago, but the info seems to have slid off the board.
No, it doesn't hurt the floppy to have it's control cable plugged
in backwards. (as we have ALL found out)
You need to pull the A2K apart and short the two pins at J301.
*INSPECT* the new drive. Trace the copper from the ID jumpers to
the ribbon cable connector. *LOOK* at the ribbon cable. Somewhere
in the cable there are a few conductors with a half-twist right in
the MIDDLE of the cable run. These conductors are closer to one
side of the connector than the other. The twist and the ID pins
exist on the SAME side of the connector.
Set the new floppy ID jumpers for DF1:. Good luck. I know of no
good way to tell you how to do this. They are ALL different.
If you REALLY want to be whorish about this, mechanically reverse
the two drives so they are correct left-to-right; DF0: DF1:. I
think you can do it electrically, too, but I didn't.
Good luck, Captain Video