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From: cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2 Floppy Drive Substitute
Message-ID: <8762@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 90 19:49:25 GMT
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Organization: Alpha Comm. Dev. Corp., Aurora, Co.
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-   I appear to have found a 3B2/400 floppy disk drive substitute, which
-means that for me, my 3B2 floppy troubles are now over!   I 'think'
-I have just successfully 'hacked' an ordinary 1.2 Meg PC floppy disk drive
-to work with my 3B2/400 computer.
- ...deleted for space......
-    The 'exact' drive I am> using is a Panasonic JU-475-2AGJ drive, and all
-id was move the DC jumper >to RDY, and moved the CX jumper over to BX.  The
-rive must setup to use Dri>ve Select 0, and the terminating resistor MUST be 
-nstalled.  If you are not >that great in the 'hardware' department, then I
-uggest you do not try this>....
-                                              oneb!hakatac!rthomas

Well, I was not able to find a Panasonic JU-475-2AGJ in town but did find
a JU-475-4AEG and it worked. I had to change AX junper to MX and MS to EX
and everything is working find. This beast is a 1.6 meg drive and what it's
used for I don't know. I do believe the drive AT&T uses for 3b2 series is
a Panasonic (at least this is what I have been told by a AT&T dealer). Now
if I could just find out how to add a second drive without getting the full
kit from a VAR dealer, I would be happy, at least for about 5 minutes.
-Cyro
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