On Sep 28, 19:36, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> On 28 Sep 98 at 12:35, Marvin wrote:
> > This morning, a friend of mine brought over a pickup truck load of
Apple
> > computers, monitors, printers, and dead disk drives.
> > Finally, I haven't checked the drives but are there common problems I
> > should look for when I start checking out the drives?
> Depending on the type of fdd there were definite sequential settings,
> so using an A drive as a B drive and vice-versa was not possible without
> setting them up.
Disk][s don't have any setup (apart from internal speed/alignment
servicing). Whether a drive is Drive 1 or Drive 2 depends solely on which
of the two connectors it's plugged in to, on the controller.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon Sep 28 1998 - 20:50:50 BST