Re: Adding a second floppy drive to an Apple IIe

[Jeff Shanholtz <jeffsubs@shanholtz.com>]

I haven't had a chance to open it up yet, but I was going to try the
copy ii+ speed check and with my working drive as drive 1 and this non-
working one as drive 2, drive 1 won't boot. It gives the standard boot
sound, but then just spins with none of the sound associated with
reading the disk. Drive 2 is preventing drive 1 from working, but if I
unplug drive 2, then drive 1 works fine. I also confirmed that the
disk is NOT being messed up by trying to boot it in this non-working
drive, so I suppose that means the logic chip isn't blown.

Out of spec drive speed wouldn't prevent the other drive from booting,
right? I wouldn't think any of the mentioned mechanical problems would
cause that. What would prevent the other drive from booting while also
not being stuck in write mode due to a bad 74125?