I’m not 100% sure off the top of my head, but the end result is that the drive is set to A: rather than B: in Windows. Something to do with the pins on the motherboard specifying the drive order.
Right the jumpers would be cable select, master , slave generally. You could use master and slave or cs but shouldn’t together. Not that you can’t but screwing up your jumpers was the easy way to be pulling you hair out for failure to boot to the right drive or failure to id in the right order.
Who will carry on the knowledge of what the a:\ and b:\ drives were?
I only teach my kids about /dev/fd0
Teach your kids to play music with
cat /dev/fd0 >/dev/snd.Oh my god make it stop
Ctrl + C
Jesus, thank you. Only took 12 hours of scrambling my brain
And why the floppy drive’s ribbon cable has a little twist in it??
Now I’m curious, why *does *the floppy drives cable have a little twist in it?
I’m not 100% sure off the top of my head, but the end result is that the drive is set to A: rather than B: in Windows. Something to do with the pins on the motherboard specifying the drive order.
You are correct. Later drives sometimes had a cable select dip switch/pin or different ports on the motherboard.
Right the jumpers would be cable select, master , slave generally. You could use master and slave or cs but shouldn’t together. Not that you can’t but screwing up your jumpers was the easy way to be pulling you hair out for failure to boot to the right drive or failure to id in the right order.
The CP/M gang, of course!