Could be two external drives on same cable?

[Querubin]

I am thinking on put two external drives in one cable. Is it possible?. Gotek in one hand and floppy 3.5 in the other.

How?

[khaz]

I asked the same question recently, and built a cable to try it. Having a switch on Pin12 is the better overall solution. Switching the power cable is fine to read, but I had problems writing on a floppy while the HxC was unpowered.

More than one external drive?

If you goal is to write a dsk/hfe on a floppy, then you could swap the data cable between read and write, or use a temporary 3" floppy in the drive A.

The swap method is tricky to make it work if you don't have a RAM expansion board (to copy the whole disc in one go). Even then, big discs like Orion Prime can give you trouble.

[Querubin]

  sorry for open this new topic. Yours is the same.

Thanks for answering.

Really I wanted to swap between floppy and gotek. And copy from 3.5 to internal in case of need to rewrite any corrupted game on it. How should be this cable configured?.

[khaz]

If you just want to read, then simply swapping the power cable is enough. I had problems writing, though I don't know if it's related to the HxC or if any second drive will prevent writing.

[Querubin]

Done, thankyou. Hope you find the solution to write from one to other.