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From: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX-PC Hardware modifications (Disk upgrades and more...)
Message-ID: <3807@islenet.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 06:41:16 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Islenet Inc.,  Honolulu
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> If this assumption is true, what I'd like to do is to get the "Black Box
> Corp." to fabricate a switch box for me that will switch both the power,
> and the ribbon cable between 2 devices. Then I'll buy the streamer tape itself
> and connect it to one side of the switch, connect the internal floppy disk
> drive to the other side of the switch, and connect the cables from the
> motherboard to the "common" part of the switch. With this arrangement, I can
> select the floppy when I want to use it, or select the streamer tape when I
> want to do backups! Feel free to send me comments if you have any comments
> that could help me.

Floppy drives are designed to be bussed together.  They normally have
a couple of lines for drive-enable which is probably all you need to
switch. That's why most multi-floppy systems connect the drives together
via the same ribbon cable.

So the job is much easier than it seems at first.






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Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
Honolulu, Hawaii
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Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
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