"To put or not put,
That is the question! "
To a question about installing 3.5''FDD.
Sure bet! And here's why.
Floppy disk. With each day to buy the normal disks 5.25''more
and complicated, but in Armavir and costs pyaterochnye drives
razed to troechnymi, and then and surpassed them.
Compatibility. When iBMschikam was asked about compatibility
and alignment in their eyes shone with such a misunderstanding,
and hair stood on end diligently to address: "And what they
then load it ????!!!".
But those who just want to put
currently flopovod. Buy branded "troika" is cheaper than even
5313, but for "TEAC" I generally keep quiet, though normal,
"TERN", and not the 40-track.
How do I connect? It's very simple.
Phase one: buy a floppy drive. Most
cheap drives in Armavir in the Rosselkome "(second floor
entrance of electrical plant). Will drive any. What you may
encounter: from plant density, with the choice of installing
the drive or without them. The latest models without any
jumpers, and that you have worked floppy HD, need to seal the
window density diskette. Without selecting the drive - but still
well they can put on A: and
In:. Pay special attention to how stress your drive is powered,
but it already during the installation. On the drive must
be shown how U want it -
only +5 V or-12V and +5 V. Please
special attention to this.
Phase two: find the necessary connectors. Connector on
Nutrition you can ask for iBMschikov friends or go to the store
"Maison" (in the courtyard of a musical school), they do
sometimes. Now - system connector - you can buy ready-made
plume in any iBMoshnoy office and kill him in Fig.1 (sm.ris1).
Now can only connect. Power connector at the three matches
pyaterochnomu. A plume troechnym connector should turn 180
degrees (see Figure 2). That's all. If there is something you
do not understand or something does not work, then take a look
carefully ad.
If you are not a lot to think and see
scheme, it is possible with a single
toggle organize switchable pair 5.25''- A; 3.5''- B, one click
and obtained 5.25''- B; 3.5''- A.
Teper's something else, I hooked a triple normal "Pentagon",
without any turbomurbo and PLL AMDH and other gadgets. Tr-Dos
version 5.03 and all works great. Also, I tried
work in the Is-Dos, pumped texts
Ms-Dos 720 and back perepysyval protected floppy (unless of
course you can do it) - everything works.
Well, the last point in this article:
HDki if you are taking is already formatted (Ms-Dos 1,44), do
not worry. If your PC before it is normal formatted disks
5.25'', then the triple He also will format correctly. I tried
this statement in the six boxes 3M and box Verbatim, formatted
in the Ms-Dos 1,44, just do not forget to seal a floppy disk,
or switch density at the Flopper (if that
switch).
So put, it will work.
Supplement 1.
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So far, all prepared (magazine) received new data - got my
hands on three drives - I drove them - compatibility class! And
on his own, so that all time not to glue pieces of paper, I
shorted HD signal on the sensor, and now nothing
Gluing is not necessary. And now, less joyful information:
perhaps on the old the very first schemes controllers troechny
flopovod bad format, although writes that if someone is normal
format and reads well, although 5.25''works fine, until the
reasons not clear. There are opinions that do not have enough
Bias current (but it's still theory).
And here's what to consider. In the 3.5''
FDD terminating resistors, as in
5.25'', no. If you put a troechny
drive here will have to invent something, because likely to
operate as a drive is impossible. By pyaterochnym is treated
exactly, but to troika? While little information.
Appendix 2.
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There is one more additional and not quite pleasant
information.
If your triple sensor HD / DD
pressure action, and others I have not yet
saw and saw I had four models, there may be an unpleasant thing.
Feeler gauge pushes capping
your floppy disk, and flopovod ceases to understand that you
have a floppy, DD, is still not the most unpleasant, but when it
occurs when the census, particularly track-cam, even with
simultaneous format, and the original you like it then
use, without checking a copy, go on
I'm longing to catch up not budu.Chto you can do the most
drastic short-circuit sensor, and then solved by another
problem - if the belt paste floppy. Or if you can not do it For
some reason, after writing do check the disk, and if after
drive started fooling around before Restaurant Check capping or
switch it.
Conclusion: The better one time to deal with
sensor, fewer problems.
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A. Soft 1996
