ESDI Cabling

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed Sep 30 21:25:10 1998

Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> EDSI does not generally use the twist unless that was a PC hack. The
> Ultrastor EDSI controllers I hav elaying around use the esact cabling
> as a pair of MFM drive on a WD 1003/5/6 controller.

The ESDI drives I have used on PCs are either set to drive select 0 with no
twist in the cable, or drive select 1 with the twist in the cable.
 
> The only thing in PCs I know of that use a twist cable is Floppies.

That might be true for the early PCs, but almost every PC I have seen uses a
twisted cable for the HD as well as the floppies (and of course the twist is
different for HDs than the floppies.)
Received on Wed Sep 30 1998 - 21:25:10 BST