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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: ROY J. TELLASON
date: 1998-04-30 14:35:00
subject: two floppy drives

Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 CG> B: with my 3.5" as A:, when I try to access it, the light for BOTH 
rives
 CG> comes on.

 RJT> No,  connecting a floppy cable backwards just makes the light for that
 RJT> particular drive come on and stay on all the time as long as the
 RJT> system is powered up...
 MR> If you have the cable connected backwards at the controller,
 MR> both lights go  on.
True,  but it doesn't wait until you try to access it (see above),  it does 
it as soon as you apply power...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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