floppy

am just building a 2nd box and plugged in the floppy cable into the MOB and
found that the drive has more pins than this cable has ,need an answer
please
With kind regards From OZ

philo
Sat May 31 23:39:56 PDT 2008


"OnlyMe" <xub100@beagle.com> wrote in message
news:e4nyTA7wIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> am just building a 2nd box and plugged in the floppy cable into the MOB
and
> found that the drive has more pins than this cable has ,need an answer
> please
> With kind regards From OZ
>
>


Are you sure it's a floppy drive you have there
maybe it's a zip drive?

Paul
Sun Jun 01 00:08:18 PDT 2008

OnlyMe wrote:
> am just building a 2nd box and plugged in the floppy cable into the MOB and
> found that the drive has more pins than this cable has ,need an answer
> please
> With kind regards From OZ
>
>

I see a 2x17 connector on the back of this floppy. One pin is missing.

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/21-103-109-03.jpg

And there is a floppy pinout listed here, for reference.

http://www.bbdsoft.com/floppy.html

What do you see on yours ? How many pins do you count ?

An IDE connector for hard drives, has a 2x20 connector. Did you
grab an IDE cable perhaps ?

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/12-339-043-01.jpg

Paul

OnlyMe
Sun Jun 01 00:42:44 PDT 2008

This will be my first Box without a floppy drive ! as I dont know
when the last time I used a floppy__thanks to all who helped
Bill in OZ

OnlyMe
Sun Jun 01 00:59:11 PDT 2008

it was a 100Mb Zip drive____didn't look at it first, as I was sure it was a
floppy
thanks to all ______Bill in OZ
"OnlyMe" <xub100@beagle.com> wrote in message
news:e4nyTA7wIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> am just building a 2nd box and plugged in the floppy cable into the MOB
> and found that the drive has more pins than this cable has ,need an answer
> please
> With kind regards From OZ
>

philo
Sun Jun 01 06:24:02 PDT 2008


"OnlyMe" <xub100@beagle.com> wrote in message
news:ugMkj17wIHA.5832@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> it was a 100Mb Zip drive____didn't look at it first, as I was sure it was
a
> floppy
> thanks to all ______Bill in OZ
> "OnlyMe" <xub100@beagle.com> wrote in message
> news:e4nyTA7wIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > am just building a 2nd box and plugged in the floppy cable into the MOB
> > and found that the drive has more pins than this cable has ,need an
answer
> > please
> > With kind regards From OZ
> >
>
>

Yep, that's what i figured!

Lil'
Sun Jun 01 14:52:55 PDT 2008

"OnlyMe" <xub100@beagle.com> wrote in message
news:e4nyTA7wIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> am just building a 2nd box and plugged in the floppy cable into the MOB
> and found that the drive has more pins than this cable has ,need an answer
> please
> With kind regards From OZ
>

And a standard floppy drive (yes, its a test question for both you and any
replies) has how many pins?

Motherboard common abbreviaton is what?

A ZIP drive is an ide device regarding the subject if appropriate. That
cable pin number count also has a common pin number count. What is it? (to
repliers). Nevermind, LPT port type or USB Zips.

Another common "floppy" drive" used in the past is the LS-120/240. This was
commonly an ide device. There's others, but I'm not guessing anymore.
--
Dave

Gurney
Sun Jun 01 15:14:47 PDT 2008

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 16:23:48 +1000, "OnlyMe" <xub100@beagle.com> wrote:

>am just building a 2nd box and plugged in the floppy cable into the MOB and
>found that the drive has more pins than this cable has ,need an answer
>please
>With kind regards From OZ
>

Why ask HERE? What does this have to do with the OS? NOTHING.

Ask elsewhere