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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 Floppy Drive in A3010?

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I believe A3010/A3020/A4000 does what A5000 does and just scan all possible IDs anyway, so may not even need to worry about that. I've an A3020 which has a 'normal' PC floppy drive in it (case slightly 'adjusted' to cope with the different size/position of eject button) - I could check.
They do, but at least on the A4000, the drive select and motor enable for the second drive aren't wired up. A3010 might be the same.

I'm looking at making a second drive work on an A4000, but I think it'd mean some cut-and-jumper work to convert it from Shugart to PC drive select. I figure two cuts and four jumpers. The comedy option would be to patch ADFS, then it "only" needs one jumper.

I didn't know about the A5000 Demuxer PAL. I'll have to dig out the schematics and see if I can figure out the logic. I wondered why ADFS had four drives in the drive-select scan table.

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