weedeewee wrote on 2021-12-13, 18:51:

yeah, you could do that. You just need to wire it up with the same wires swapped as the cable is for the 5.25 connector. Also y […]
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Sucho wrote on 2021-12-13, 18:45:

It seems to me that drive sel for A: and B: are specific pins on the connector. Maybe I could use something like these to swap t […]
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It seems to me that drive sel for A: and B: are specific pins on the connector. Maybe I could use something like these to swap those pins in between I/O card and cable itself?

yeah, you could do that.
You just need to wire it up with the same wires swapped as the cable is for the 5.25 connector.
Also you can hook it up but you will again have to leave the 5.25 drive off of the cable.

are you sure you don't have jumpers on your 3.5 floppy drive ?

You can't use jumpers to change the drive letter on a PC-std shugart setup. Even if you change the DS jumpers appropriately, the motor on signals will still be decided by the cable because the PC FDC has two separate motor on signals

+1 I concur with max, I was sorta sure that's the way it would go, but I either need the reminders or my memory is getting situational, gotta put my mitts on things, or otherwise "get my head in the game" then it comes rushing back like Tank just downloaded Neo a kung-fu program or something.

Surely the cheapest and easiest (if not quickest) option is to just buy a cable with 2 of each connector type, then set up the drive you want as A: ? I'm sure there are some on ebay (I haven't checked recently, but I hope there are, as I'll need a few soon)

Alright, will try to get my hands on one of those cables.
Shout-out to everybody that chimed in. I appreciate you.

you can always use a flat head screw driver and remove the connectors off the cable and use a vise to remake it to a normal cable it easy for anyone with a frontal lobe and a functional motor cortex.

Managed to get my hands on proper universal floppy cable! Thanks for help.