Re: Adding a second floppy drive to an Apple IIe

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Jeff Shanholtz" <jeffsubs@shanholtz.com> wrote in message news:05
2f5fb1-702b-45aa-a013-7a612909f9c0@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.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?

Are these the non-Apple drives?  Have you tried them without an
Apple drive connected?  Perhaps you can provide more information
on these odd branded drives, and pictures even. Might I add that
it took me a good year of buying up and working on lots of drives
before getting pretty good at repairing them. This includes 3.5's,
and I still haven't seen them all. Some of them are just too rare
and the bids get really too high for me. Anyway, if you can't get
them to the right speed with the software, try the timing way.

Bill