From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 15:05:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17962 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17927 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA09040; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00743; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:02:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:01:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Tony Overfield cc: Michael Smith , FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disks In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970414135655.007abc30@bugs.us.dell.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Tony Overfield wrote: > At 01:26 AM 4/15/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote: > >Hmm, my memory is a tad rusty here, but there was a time when nobody > >was agreeing on whether it was pin 2 or 32 that was the diskchange > >signal. > > It's pin 34. It's very susceptible to failure because it's the very > last wire in the cable (away from the red stripe) and is frequently > broken by manhandling the cables. Pin 1 is also vulnerable, but it's > a redundant ground wire, so nobody ever notices it. > > In DOS, as in CP/M, you can press ^C to invalidate the previous > floppy buffers, though it's best to put on a new cable and hope > that works. That was the problem (thanks to you and Mike Smith! it's working nicely now.) > > - > Tony > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------