Jeff:
I am unable to type out the whole section, so I refer you to Mark Minasi,
"The Complete PC Upgrade & Maintenance Guide," 7th edition, pp. 764 and
following,
"To configure a new floppy you must,
-Terminate the drive properly
-set the drive select jumper
-Select System Ready/Disk Change
-Connect it to the twisted or non-twisted connector . . .

Also, pp. 766ff., "After the drive is terminated . . . the driver must be
selected. This means that certain jumpers must be added or removed."

I haven't installed dual floppies, so I have actually never looked at
modern floppies to examine jumpers, nor do I want to open up a box to look
at this moment. As I said earlier I was remembering from previous reading.
If you don't have this or a similar book you should be able to find it and
a Borders bookstore or any large bookstore.
hth, Dean

>Dean Riddle wrote:
>>
>> At 03:21 AM 11/26/98 GMT, you wrote:
>> >After setting the CMOS correctly, and replacing ribbon cables, floppy
>> >drives, and using various disks, both A and B [1.44mb] floppy drives
>> >begin to run an 'exe.' file, but after a couple of seconds--hang up.
>> >
>> Is the second floppy set by jumper as a secondary floppy? Haven't done this
>> myself, just know from reading that it must be done.
>
>Could someone clarify this, please? This is the first that I've heard
>about floppy drives having jumpers or caring whether they are primary
>(A:) or secondary (B:).
>
>The reason I ask is that I'm trying to install a second 3.5" floppy
>drive in a friend's system, but as soon as I connect the power cable it
>refuses to boot. I've already swapped the drive with another new one,
>and tried it with and without the data cable connected, but it won't
>boot ANYTIME the second floppy's power cable is connected. In fact, the
>system won't boot even if that floppy is the ONLY drive connected. The
>system is only 6 months old, and also has a Samsung 4.3 GB drive, a WD
>6.4 GB drive, and a 24x BTC CD-ROM drive, in addition to the
>floppy(ies). I'm not sure of the capacity of the ATX P/S.
>
>Ideas? The next time I get over there, I'll check that the power cable
>is wired properly, but other than that I'm temporarily stumped. I
>figured removing power from both hard drives and the CD-ROM would remove
>the possibility of a weak P/S, right?
>

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