Re: Replacement drive mechanism for 1581

Still seems odd; maybe they used the same twisted cable motor control trick as the PC, maybe even with swapped drive designators...

Will have to look at one one day.

Thanks,
m

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michał Pleban" <lists@michau.name>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Replacement drive mechanism for 1581


> Hello!
> 
> Mike Stein wrote:
> 
>> Interesting; there are indeed many more things than are dreamt of in my philosophy. Seems odd though; since the 900 has provisions for two drives (DS0 and DS1) how would a dual-drive system be configured?
> 
> In a dual drive system, I imagine the second drive would be used as fd0.
> There is even a connector for fd0 on the motherboard, but I haven't
> tried it. The case has a hole for the second drive, hovewer the second
> drive will not fit inside - the mount for the first drive and the HDD is
> too low and takes the space where second drive would have to go.
> 
> Regards,
> Michau.
> 
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