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jumper settings for sony smd-300 floppy drive
Name: Glenn Date: January 24, 2001 at 23:35:34 Pacific
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i have 2 of these and they were b drives in both puters took out 5 1/4 drives and wanted to make these A: drives need to reset jumpers
Name: Ellis Date: January 24, 2001 at 23:44:54 Pacific
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5.25 jumpers - Dont think so... Might be the placement on the cable, but I don't recall any jumpers on a 5.25 drive... (do they sell the disks?)
You may be able to assign the drive assignment in Windows Device Manager...
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Response Number 2
Name: Rob Date: January 25, 2001 at 00:19:11 Pacific
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I've got one setting on my desk, that I took out of a system this afternoon, it works real well as a paper weight now :-) If you go into BIOS there under standard CMOS features you will have the option of setting what drive you would like to have as your A: & B: drives.
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Response Number 3
Name: Glenn Date: January 25, 2001 at 00:22:26 Pacific
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i need the jumper settings for 3.5 floppy drives are trashing the 5.25
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Response Number 4
Name: Raa Date: January 25, 2001 at 04:20:50 Pacific
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Normally the designation of a FDD is set by the cable you use to connect to the FDD controller. The connection that has a twist in the cable is the bootable connection.
Raa
(ie there are no jumpers)
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Response Number 5
Name: Glenn Date: January 25, 2001 at 04:56:25 Pacific
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these must dinosaurs then because they have jumpers
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Response Number 6
Name: Glenn Date: January 25, 2001 at 04:58:25 Pacific
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they must be dinosaurs because they do have jumpers
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Response Number 7
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: January 25, 2001 at 16:59:45 Pacific
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If the 3 1/2 drives were connected by floppy cables with the 7 wire twist then the jumpers shouldn't need to be changed. Otherwise, looking at the back of the drive:
With a twisted cable 15 and 16 should be jumpered for both a: or b: drive selection. With a non twisted cable 14 and 15 should be jumpered for a: and 15 and 16 for b: Also for typical AT installation 2 and 3 should be jumpered and 4 and 5 should be jumpered. This is for the epson smd-300 which I believe was sold by sony also.
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Response Number 8
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: January 25, 2001 at 17:01:36 Pacific
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Ok the diagram didn't come out right. Email me if you can't figure it out.
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Response Number 9
Name: Jerry Date: January 28, 2001 at 10:10:35 Pacific
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Just had the same problem w/ an Epson SMD-300 on an antique Gateway computer. Had to pull the ribbon cable off the 5 1/4" and connect to the 3.5", then configure the BIOS to have 3.5" as Diskette A and nothing for Diskette B. Left the 5 1/4 out, works!!
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Summary: Hi there. I have two old 5.25" floppy drives that I would like to drop into a couple of old machines I have kicking around. I can't find the jumper settings from the manufacturers so I thought I'd com...
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