Re: PCTransporter help needed

[btuser@bits.com (Bob the User)]

hirschj@vax2.concordia.ca (vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

>I have a PCtransporter with a single 5.25 drive in the
>transdrive. There is room for another. Can I just pop in
>another 5.25 low density ibm drive? How about a 3.5 drive?
>Thanks for any help you can give.
>--Jack

I installed a 3.5" 720K drive into the second slot of my PCTransporter
drive box and ran into one little hitch.  In PC's, the internal drive
cable that daisychains the 5.25" to the 3.5" units usually have a
twist just off center of the ribbon cable (I can't remember which
lines) to identify the A: and the B: drives (A: is at the end of the
cable).  The PCTransdrive will not work correctly with that twist.
You may have to take the cable and manually flatten it, or order a
cable without the twist from someplace like Cables-to-Go.  Good luck!