Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:44679 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:6557 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!traffic.rutgers.edu!kaldis From: kaldis@traffic.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: 720k floppy drive Keywords: terminating resistor Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 90 19:34:27 GMT References: <22899@usc.edu> <1527@motmpl.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 31 In article <1527@motmpl.UUCP> ron@motmpl.UUCP (Ron Widell) writes: > Kenneth J. Hendrickson: >> I have just gotten a 720k drive. [...] terminating resistor [...] >> I can't find any such resistor on my 720k drive. > It's probably not there, but there's probably a socket for it, I have installed several 720K drives, and none of them had a terminating resistor. Your drive may not need one either (or there may be a jumper for it). >> Is there any jumpers I must set on my 720k drive to select the B: >> drive? > All PC's (and most clones) that I've seen leave the drive-select jumpers > configured for drive 0 (when numbered 0-3, otherwise 1 for 1-4). This is incorrect. The drive should be set as drive *1* if the choice is from 0 to 3, and drive *2* if it is from 1 to 4. If you set BOTH drives as Mr. Widell suggests above, the system will still work, but the drive before the twist in the cable will be drive A:, and the drive after the twist will be drive B:. -- Theodore A. Kaldis | "Perhaps we may +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- | frighten away email: kaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu | the ghost of so UUCP: {...}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!kaldis | many years ago U.S. Snail: P.O. Box #1212, Woodbridge, NJ 07095 | with a little ex-Ma Bell: (201) 283-4855 (voice) | illumination . . ."