Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:58:45 +0100
Message-Id: <F39B6E4C-A9D1-46DB-BA3C-FD5E77D2EAD0@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2019-01-06, at 14:16, Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
> 
>>>> Given two daisy-chained drives with the motor on/off signal on pin 16, how would you individually turn each separate motor on or off?
>>> A jumper of course, it's a PC & so it's full of them. One more won't
>>> hurt :-)
>>> 
>> ??
>> A normal daisy chain cable directly connects all lines, including  the motor on/off line, of the two drives together in parallel; how could a jumper anywhere turn on one motor while leaving the other turned off?
> 
> A drive that turns on the motor without the drive select line being active too has a design flaw. Properly designed drives would let you control the motor only if the DS line is active too. Yes, you would have to set the jumper for DS properly for each drive.

Precisely that. And the drive could be positioned anywhere on the chain too.

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Received on 2019-01-07 14:00:03

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