*** Barry Block wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
BB> Hello Scott, broadly speaking of assembly...
 SM> On some older Tandy computers, the drive gets power from the data
 SM> cable. Replacing the special Tandy drives with a standard one will
 SM> often fry the drive, since it's getting power on the data cable
 SM> that it isn't designed for.
BB>      That explains the used drive I took home years ago that
BB> had no      power plug (I found out later). I tried to make
BB> a power cable/socket      for it but fried the drive anyway
BB> :-)
Some IBM PS/2 floppies are the same way, BTW.
BB>      BTW, everyone assumes the machine he wants to install a
BB> 5.25 disk on      is not an XT :-)
BB>      I suppose he will have to set dip switch(s) or
BB> jumper(s) if it is. 
If it's an XT, basically just have to enable the drive; the system will 
probably assume that it's a 5.25" 360K.  Yeah, nearly all of them have 
jumpers and/or switches.
--Scott.
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