vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) (06/24/91)
A few weeks ago I asked about jumpers on a Teac 3.5 floppy, and got some random responses ranging from "lotsa luck" to a list of jumpers for a drive that has many more than the one I bought. I spent some time yesterday getting mine to work. Move the drive select to D0, and connect across the RY pins, jumper pin 34 on (ST), and the thing works like a champ. The control/data connector was installed backward from that on the 5-1/4 I removed. Pin numbers are marked on the circuit board, be sure to get these correct. It also took a little creative cable folding and routing to get the cables installed. A couple of things I found that I didn't see on the FAQ sheet: To get the plastic cover with the fan and power switch off, I had to walk around the periphery with a screwdriver to release some snap-in tabs. Also, when putting the top metal cover with the disks back in place, I found that the power connector for the hard drive would jam the back frame, needed to be lifted to allow the cover to slide all the way back. I have the foundation set and development system cpio-d to the hard disk, and now to write them out to 3.5 disks so that I can reinstall from 3.5 if need be. That should give me enough space to unpack mtools2 which is supposed to handle DOS 720K floppies. -- Hank van Cleef vancleef@iastate.edu Iowa State University, Ames. Ia. tmn!vancleef The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Oh.