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Re: Which order to hook up these drives?



"Jonathan Herr" <dracosilver@wi.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:hzECe.7504$Rx4.5331@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
>I have an Apple IIGS, and I have an Apple 5.25 in Disk drive, an Apple
> Unidisk and two Apple 3.5 in floppy drives.  What order should I hook them
> up to the machine, (I know the machine works), and how would I 'ferret' 
> out
> any drives that might have bad cables?  (They might have been roughed up
> when I dropped some of the stuff, not sure what/how hard it got dropped if
> it did...)
>
> Any help is appreciated.

The IIgs's Smartport/Diskport connector can have:

2 x 3.5" drives, either Unidisk or Standard 800K
2 x 5.25" drives.

Hook up the 3.5" drives first, then the 5.25" drives.

Bill Garber