Hi all!
I have been searching the forum but I end up getting lost between messages without seeing the solution (if there is one)
I just made a cable to connect an external 3" drive that I had unused as drive B. So far so good.
I have used a 24-wire flat cable following the assembly instructions on the wiki.
I have two questions, to see if someone can help me with this:
1.- The led of unit B, the external unit, always stays on. It only flashes when Drive A is reading from a disk. Is there a way to get the LED on drive B to act the same as the one on drive A?
2.- With drive B powered and with the data cable connected to the CPC, when the CPC is off the motor starts up. When I turn on the CPC the motor turns off. It is normal?
Thanks in advance!
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Hello,
I don't know if this will help you because I don't have an external 3" drive.
But I have a Gotek external drive, and a 3"1/2 external drive, each with a cable with drive selector.
- Internal 3" drive as A and external 3"1/2 drive as B :
- When reading from A, no led from B, and external 3"1/2 drive led always stays off.
- When reading from B, the led of drive A flashes during loading, and internal drive motor stays off.
- External 3"1/2 drive as A (internal 3" drive disabled) :
- When reading from A, internal 3" drive led always stays off, and drive motor stays off.
- Internal 3" drive as A and external Gotek drive as B :
- When reading from A, the led of drive B flashes during loading.
- When reading from B, the led of drive A flashes during loading, and internal drive motor stays on while loading only.
- External Gotek drive as A (internal 3" drive disabled) :
- When reading from A, internal 3" drive led flashes occasionally but not every time, and drive motor stays on permanently.
Quote from: bene78 on 23:32, 13 November 22when the CPC is off the motor starts up. When I turn on the CPC the motor turns off.
Not in my case.
When my CPC is off, the motor stays off (regardless of the drives I plug in, and the position of drive A or B).
Hello poulette37
Thank you very much for your detailed answer!!!
I have several Gotek and it is as you say, and in this case I have modified the connection of the led to record reading activity.
But the case is in a connection to a real 3" drive, with the cable with less wires. I could try to modify the 3" drive as well as I do with the gotek, but I was wondering if there was another way.