Floppy Drive Cable Question

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Gabriel Knight

Hi I have a question to do with the newer floppy and the older floppy
drives, I have both for my old pc to play my old games when the time calls
for it but I havnt plugged in the cable just yet.

It has the older "plug" at the end - the one that slides onto the pcb with
the tracks to the older floppy and next to it the newer floppy "plug". I
want to have both floppies up and running together so do I treat it like an
IDE cable but without jumper settings for master and slave? Or can I only
run one floppy at a time?

Thanks
Shaun B.
 
the end of the cable with the twisted wire going into the connector is a the
A drive and the other is the B drive. This will permit you to have both
drives working.
BTW some of the newer boards only permit the use of one floppy.
 
Modern motherboards have floppy controllers built in that can ONLY control
one floppy drive, not two since 5 1/4" floppies have not been around for
over a decade.
 
Gabriel said:
Hi I have a question to do with the newer floppy and the older floppy
drives, I have both for my old pc to play my old games when the time
calls for it but I havnt plugged in the cable just yet.

It has the older "plug" at the end - the one that slides onto the pcb
with the tracks to the older floppy and next to it the newer floppy
"plug". I want to have both floppies up and running together so do I
treat it like an IDE cable but without jumper settings for master and
slave? Or can I only run one floppy at a time?

Thanks
Shaun B.
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Next to it? An inch or so? Then they are both for the A: drive, either an
5.25" (the card edge connector) or a 3.5" (the pin row connector)

If there's no other connectors than those, and of course the mobo connector
on the cable, it's meant for 1 drive only. If there's more connectors, there
usually are a few twisted wires between the A. (end connector) and B:
(middle connector)


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