Floppy drive

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Hi my floppy's stopped working. I replaced with a different one and still no
go. At one stage possibly connected it the wrong way round. Could the MB be
broken?
 
Hi my floppy's stopped working. I replaced with a different one and still no
go. At one stage possibly connected it the wrong way round. Could the MB be
broken?
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Throw it in the bin and don't bother replacing it. Buy a USB memory
stick instead.
 
Conor said:
Throw it in the bin and don't bother replacing it. Buy a USB memory
stick instead.
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And use HP USB Key Drive Utility to convert it into a floppy drive....

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housetrained said:
Hi my floppy's stopped working. I replaced with a different one and
still no go. At one stage possibly connected it the wrong way round.
Could the MB be broken?
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Are you sure you have the ribbon on the new one the right way around?
Have you replaced the ribbon? How do you know the new one is broken?
Connecting the ribbon the wrong way around won't kill a floppy, but it
will render it useless until you put it right. Yes, the floppy
controller on the mainboard could be broken.

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Throw it in the bin and don't bother replacing it. Buy a USB memory
stick instead.
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That won't help for the quarter century of floppy disks that have
been collected. There's no slot on a USB flash drive for a floppy
disk.

Michael
 
Are you sure you have the ribbon on the new one the right way around? Have
you replaced the ribbon? How do you know the new one is broken? Connecting
the ribbon the wrong way around won't kill a floppy, but it will render it
useless until you put it right. Yes, the floppy controller on the mainboard
could be broken.
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A reverse cable won't damage the floppy drive, but it can damage the
floppy disk in that drive.

Since one side of the connector has all the pins to ground, and all or
most of the control lines on the drive are active low, reversing the
cable can do things like turn on the motor, turn on the drive
select, turn on write, and then it starts erasing what's underneath it.

So it's best to do testing with a floppy disk one doesn't care about.

It is pretty easy to pull the connector out at the motherboard without
realizing it, I've done that when trying to do something else. Yes,
it is more likely the connector has pulled out somewhere than that
a fatal hardware fault has developed.

Michael
 
That won't help for the quarter century of floppy disks that have
been collected. There's no slot on a USB flash drive for a floppy
disk.
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Most of them will be ****ed if they're more than a couple of years old.
 
Most of them will be ****ed if they're more than a couple of years old.

That isn't true, I have floppies from 6 years back, just tried some of them
now because of your message and I have a floppy from a 1992 programming
book, all work perfectly.

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Good news, got it working again. When it was connected wrongly I tried a
different cable and from then on all the tests were done with that one. I
replaced the original cable and it works fine BUT a floppy I've used many
times before had to be re-formatted, but now all is well. Thanks everyone
that helped.
p.s. I've cut up the dodgy cable and binned it.
 
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