todhor@auto-trol.UUCP (Tod Hornsby) (12/13/89)
Well I'm just about through installing the Chinon 3.5 internal in my 2000. Interestingly enougyh the original Commodore 3.5 is Made By Chinon (# 354 rev A) and though slightly different it appears 'better' constructed than the Chinon I just bought but alas it has no dust cover. Anyway the Chinon I bought (# 354 rev B) installed nicely. I put it on the right side (df1:) and moved the commodore over to the left side(df0:). i.e. reading left to right. Everything appears fine except for this: When I access either drive say to do a read or dir BOTH lights on both drives come on. should this be? It definitely recognizes the new drive as df1: so they`re not both set to the same device, and in the brief time that I played with them last night everything appeared to work fine. I just don't think both lights should come on when I access one drive. Oh yeah they come on even if the other drive has nothing in it! Again this happens both ways If anyone has similar experience explanation etc I'd be most interested. On an aside it would be very easy (just need drill and small bit) to retrofit a dust cover door to the commodore drive. The Chinon face (door etc) will NOT mount onto the Commodore version of the drive they mount differently, However if the holes are present the door definitely would. Unfortunetly I doubt you could get the doors (& spring) from chinon seperately but maybe it's worth a try. The chinon also uses an amber led instead of red. No biggee to me but it's easy to get to and replace with a red rectangular led. The chinon is also reasonably quiet. Thanks in advance! - Todd
sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (12/15/89)
In article <495@auto-trol.UUCP> todhor@auto-trol.COM () writes: >Well I'm just about through installing the Chinon 3.5 internal >... >appears fine except for this: When I access either drive >say to do a read or dir BOTH lights on both drives come on. Two things need to be done: 1> set the drive select jumpers on the drives so that one is drive 0 and the other is drive 1. 2> There is a jumper on the motherboard (I don't have the 2000 handbook with me so I can't tell you the jumper number) Look in you handbook that came with the 2000 in the section that talks about jumpers. There is one that affects the drive ID's. Something about it being closed so you can plug in an EXTERNAL drive, and you have to open it if you are installing an INTERNAL drive. A friend and I just installed an internal drive in his 2000 and that is what we had to do. Until we set the jumper on the mother board both drives acted like yours does. Now it works fine. -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 : I'm not as dumb as you look.
jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) (12/24/89)
In article <1262@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: > In article <495@auto-trol.UUCP> todhor@auto-trol.COM () writes: > >Well I'm just about through installing the Chinon 3.5 internal > >... > >appears fine except for this: When I access either drive > >say to do a read or dir BOTH lights on both drives come on. > > Two things need to be done: > > 1> set the drive select jumpers on the drives so that one is drive 0 and the > other is drive 1. > > -- > John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps > ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 I recently bought a Chinon drive to replace the original df0: that came in my 2000. I got it from an International BM clone dealer and it didn't have any drive select jumpers! Apparently they assume the drive doesn't need these since IBM always selects drive zero. I had to do a fast shuffle with my other internal drive to get things to work normally. -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh