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I have found the cable - see PM.

It may be too short for you - the distance from the interface connector to the first floppy drive connector is 12" (30cm)

Thanks Rich.

Cable received and tested: all working fine. I now have a working twin 3.5 inch floppy system, correctly responding to flp1 ...

RWAP wrote:I will have a look tomorrow - I may have a couple of spare straight cables....

Thanks Rich, that'd be brilliant.

Hi Adrian,

It seems that both of your drives have jumpers (which makes it easy).

Just keep a straight cable throughout - no twists.

Then just set the jumper on the second drive to DS1 (probably what it was already) and DC->ready as on the first drive.

Well, when I say jumpers, it'll be solder ...

Hi all,

I'm about to embark on connecting a second 3.5 inch floppy drive to my existing system, and I'm having doubts as to the proper arrangement of jumpers and cables.

For the first drive, things were pretty straightforward: straight portion of PC floppy cable; jumpers ds1 -> ds0, DC -> rdy ...

Hi Again Forum,

I thought I'd let you know that I've got a floppy drive up and running now: hurrah! I've written/saved/loaded my first program (straight from the QL user guide, as a test) to and from a vintage 3.5 inch floppy and drive combination.

For new users interested, I mostly followed RWAP ...

belg4rion67 wrote:Hi and welcome;
for floppy cable read this: http://theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2& ... able#p8466
Cheers
Paolo

Thanks! I'll take a read.

vanpeebles wrote:Ooo - also check out this free ebook that came out at Christmas, it's excellent

http://theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1147

That is incredible. Going straight onto my tablet for train reading. Thanks.

Welcome, Adrian. It's nice to see people acquiring QLs and getting them to work.


Thanks Dilwyn,

It's interesting isn't, to see dead computers come back to life. Honestly, this was all just whim really, but it's becoming surprisingly addictive getting them going and reading up about decades old ...

Welcome to the forums, and thanks for the feedback.


Thank you, and no problem for the feedback, it's a good product.


The PC emulators should be able to format a floppy disk for the QL, but it can be a bit hit and miss unless you are using Windows XP (or earlier) or Linux, and even worse if ...

vanpeebles wrote:A warm welcome to the forum. Sounds like you have a good setup already

Thanks for the welcome. With regards the current setup, we'll see: I'll say it's a good setup when I've compiled and run my first program for the QL!

Adrian