Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!akgua!netnews
From: netnews@akgua.ATT.COM (R. Brad Kummer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,att.sys.pc6300
Subject: Re: Connecting Teac 360K drive to 6300
Summary: reverse the edge-card connector
Keywords: floppy disk drive
Message-ID: <1799@akgua.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 88 11:49:14 GMT
References: <704@io.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Network Systems/Bell Labs, Atlanta GA
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In article <704@io.ATT.COM>, aps@io.ATT.COM (59463[wrb]-a.shajenko) writes:
> 
> My dad's PC6300 has had its floppy drive die and he would like to
> replace the rather exotic Olivetti with a common Teac 360K drive.
> He's fiddled with the jumpers on the drive to no avail.  He needs
> a floppy drive to backup some crucial data on the hard disk.
> 

The edge-card connector on the TEAC drives is "upside down" (relative to
the Olivetti drives, anyway).  If you connect the cable with the
"THIS SIDE UP" label facing DOWN, it should work fine.  The only jumper
required is "D1".

	Hope this helps,
	R. Brad Kummer  akguc!rbk
	AT&T Bell Laboratories - Atlanta