Floppy Drive Cable Question

[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.

 

[BigJim]

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.

 

[DaveW]

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.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

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.

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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