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Ancient traditions (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

Who here remembers turning part of the ide cable round to add a second floppy drive?

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

Probably noone because floppys dont use ide.

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Are you sure it was IDE? I remember jumpers for master, slave, and Cable Select so you're probably right.

I think it might have also applied to floppy drives or MFM / ESDI drives but that is going back a while.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

It was actually an FDD cable which was 34 pins instead of 40 for the IDE cable. My mistake!

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