What is this cable?

[meirman]

I'm going through the things my friend gave me, and there are two
brand-new unused flat multi-wire cables, such as for floppy or hard
drives.

They have black 17x2 connectors on each end, and wires 10 through 15
are flipped over like in a floppy drive cable, but the difference is
that this only has connectors at the ends. Nothing in the middle.

Do you know what these are used for?


Also, I know that the hard drive cables with blue ends have shielded
conductors for ATA drives, high speed high capacity drives. But I
have one flat cable for hard drives iirc with white ends. Does that
mean anything special?

Thanks


Meirman

 

[johns]

Pretty sure it is a floppy cable. Should be kind of
short too. I have a huge box of still in the boxers
cables that I have not a clue. We had a bunch of
Suns and Decs, and they were really bad for weird
cables.

johns

 

[philo]

I'm going through the things my friend gave me, and there are two
brand-new unused flat multi-wire cables, such as for floppy or hard
drives.

They have black 17x2 connectors on each end, and wires 10 through 15
are flipped over like in a floppy drive cable, but the difference is
that this only has connectors at the ends. Nothing in the middle.

Do you know what these are used for?


Also, I know that the hard drive cables with blue ends have shielded
conductors for ATA drives, high speed high capacity drives. But I
have one flat cable for hard drives iirc with white ends. Does that
mean anything special?

Thanks

probably just a floppy cable
most machines only need a single floppy anyway

 

[meirman]

In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:30:55 -0600

probably just a floppy cable
most machines only need a single floppy anyway

Thanks you guys.

What got me is the flip. I figured when they designed this stuff,
they used a plain flat cable, and didn't need the flip until they
tried to put two drives on the same cable.

But now, come to think of it, the A: drive is at the end, right?, and
the one in the middle is the B: drive, right?

So would that mean it needs a flip if there is only an A: drive
connector?


Meirman

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Yes. Floppy drives usually had no jumpers for setting A: or B: , they were
all B:
Instead the setting was done by the cable
So a single drive cable had to have the crossover...

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