Floppy Disk Drive Cable Connector
A floppy cable is a ribbon cable found in pc s that allow one or more floppy disk drives to connect to a computer.
Floppy disk drive cable connector. A floppy disk drive s connectors are at the back of the unit. Sata power y splitter cable 2 pack 15 pin sata power splitter cable adapter sata 15 pin male to dual female power y cable 7 inche 4 7 out of 5 stars 64 7 99 7. In the illustration is a visual example of what a floppy cable may look like and where each end of connectors connect. So the same cable could have one connector for the motherboard two connectors for 5 25 inch drives and two connectors for 3 5 inch drives.
The floppy drive connector looks similar to a 40 pin ide connector but is a little smaller with a pin count of 34. The single connector on one end of the cable is meant to connect to the floppy disk controller either on a controller card or the motherboard. As shown this cable allows a desktop computer to have two floppy drives connected to one floppy controller. The table below provides the personal computer drive a pinout for either the 3 1 2 or 5 1 4 floppy drive.
However as with an ide cable the convention is for pin 1 on the connector to correspond with the red wire of the floppy drive ribbon. When the ancient 5 25 inch floppy drives were replaced by 3 5 inch drives which have different connectors cable manufacturers began including both types of connectors on floppy drive cables. 1 44mb 3 5 floppy drive connector adapter 34pin 34p to usb cable adapter pcb board u disk to floppy disk soft cable 34 pin type. Usb floppy drive mthstec 3 5 usb external floppy disk drive 1 44 mb slim plug and play fdd drive for pc windows 2000 xp vista windows 7 8 10 mac black 3 9 out of 5 stars 24 26 99 26.
The pair of connectors or single connector in the case of a three connector cable at the opposite end of the cable is intended for the a.