I'm amazed to find a thread this recent on this. A friend just acquired a Canon 5501 and can't get it to work. It sounds like the drive is never getting selected by the system. He claims there are no jumpers on it. I find that a little hard to believe, especially since I found a couple of much older articles referring to jumpers. I'm too remote to look for myself, so can one of you who has seen one either confirm this or tell me where to find the jumpers?
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5.25" floppy drive inconsistency
- Thread starter Neosodium
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Referencing the jumper info from page 11 of this PDF
http://goyim.dyndns.org:8080/coco/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Floppy Drives Jumper Settings.pdf
Looking at the drive from the front, it looks like the jumpers are on the edge of the PCB on the right side behind the mounting rail. He will have to take the rail off (couple screws) to see them. In the second pic of the drive here,
http://www.recycledgoods.com/produc...5.25"-Internal-Floppy-Drive-Canon-MD5501.html
you can reference the loop for the wire loom at the back of the drive, it appears to be the same loop in the pdf picture and gives an idea of where the pdf reference is referring to.
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MikeS
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In later years many manufacturers saved a penny or two by replacing removable jumpers with fixed wire jumpers or zero ohm resistors that configured the drive for use in a PC-compatible system.
Some 5501s had an actual right-angle jumper block accessible through a cutout in the drive side frame just behind the data connector; later models just had a soldered wire jumper in the S2 position like this:
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