Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!ucsd!usc!wuarchive!mailrus!cornell!johnhlee From: johnhlee@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Johnny H. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Flakey floppy Message-ID: <45219@cornell.UUCP> Date: 31 Aug 90 16:34:16 GMT References: <45154@cornell.UUCP> <900830.194805.CDT.C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu (Johnny H. Lee) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 20 In article <900830.194305.CDT.C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU> C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards) writes: > >In Message-ID: <45154@cornell.UUCP> >"Johnny H.Lee" said: >>In article <900829.161641.CDT.C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU> C506634@UMCVMB.MISSO >>Did you check the floppy drive signal terminators? Each drive must be >>terminated. > >Terminators? What ARE you talking about. My floppies didn't come with any >hardware beyond the drives themselves. And no one else seems to need them. Ooops, hehe. Never mind. You *do* need them, but I forgot that the 3-1/2" drives have the signal terminators hardwired into the drive unlike the 5-1/4" floppies and hard disks. Been fiddling with my 5-1/4" drive, you see. But your troubles do sound like they could be a cable/noise problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows start popping out! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.