From: .:Michau:. (adoram_at_chrzescijanie.pl)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 09:05:28 EST
Hello!
Thanks for everyone who helped me with the information on this topic. I've
finally managed to install the disk, so I'm writing this in case it can
help anyone else.
The information I was referred to was concerning TP 760 models. Things are
quite different with 365X. The 760 had HD cable, which covered not only
the drive's connector, but four jumper pins next to it as well. In old IBM
disks when you jumpered two last pins, it was set up as master, contrary
to other disks, when it made them slave ;-) So IBM wired these two pins in
HD cable, so that when you put IBM disk in it you get it as a master, but
when you put other disk, you get it as a slave and it doesn't work. Then
you should bend or replace one of these two last pins and it should get it
right.
The 365X's HD connector _doesn't_ cover these pins. They are left open.
Moreover, it came not with IBM disk, but with Toshiba (at least mine did).
So when I tried to put IBM disk in it, it was just an opposite of the
situation with 760: the computer was right, and it was prepared to work
with non-IBM disks, but the disk was wrong, and it worked as slave. So the
solution was not to remove pins, but to _connect_ them together. After
this the disk started to work.
What surprizes me most is that the disk was acting as a slave when these
pins were left open and there was no jumper on them. It's quite
counterintuitive to me, as I always saw disks acting as masters when
unjumpered. Not so with old IBM disks: you have to specifically jumper
them to behave as masters.
Another story is that when you put IBM disk into IBM computer, it stops
working ;-) Ugh.
Regards,
Michau.
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