TRS-80 Hard drives (was:Cable needed)

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Tue Sep 1 17:42:09 1998

I used to have a Model 1. I believe the logical answer for why Drive 0 was
at the beginning of the cable was do that it was the closest to the
computer, ant it would make it less confusing for novice computer users:
Closest drive gets the boot disk.

As for the drive with a resistor pack needing to be at the end of the
cable, I disagree. I had a two-disk system, and both drives were
identical. I know that, because when I first got the computer, I plugged
the drives in, turned them on, turned on the expansion box, and turned on
the computer, and they worked. I tried the drives the other way (switched
them on the cable), and they still worked.

I'm also sure that neither had the resistor pack, because when I got the
computer, it was supposed to have 4 drives. There was, however, another
Model 1 with an expansion box, but no drives. The person who was selling
the computers took drives 3 and 4 off of the one that I got, and put them
on the other one. My friend bought it, and the drives worked on it, too.
--
         -Jason
(roblwill_at_usaor.net)
   ICQ#-1730318
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> From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: TRS-80 Hard drives (was:Cable needed)
> Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 1:42 PM
>
> It would have been a lot simpler if the connectors had been fitted in the

> opposite order so that drive 0 was at the end of the cable. Then the
> terminated drive always would have gone at the end of the cable, and
> would always have been Drive 0. No idea why they didn't do this.
>
> -tony
>
Received on Tue Sep 01 1998 - 17:42:09 BST