B drive never found / detected when connecting 5¼ and 3½ FDDs

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Reply 20 of 20, by Major Jackyl

Posted on 2025-03-06, 00:32

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DaveDDS wrote on 2025-03-05, 22:56:

I'd be curious to know if "swap floppy" actually swaps with ImageDisk?

It does indeed swap in ImageDisk. I was just testing this on my K7s5A. I was using a cable with card slot on the "A" side:

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I ended up with THIS crazyness in W98....

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It was because the ZIP drive is normally "B" in this computer, 🤣

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