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.
The table below provides the personal computer drive a pinout for either the 3 1 2 or 5 1 4 floppy drive.
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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.
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.
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.
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The cable uses a 34 pin idc connector requiring a 34 pin device header and a 34 pin flat ribbon cable idc definition the connector size differ between the two drive types with the 5 25 drives requiring a larger connector.
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.
In the illustration is a visual example of what a floppy cable may look like and where each end of connectors connect.
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A floppy disk drive s connectors are at the back of the unit.
The floppy drive connector looks similar to a 40 pin ide connector but is a little smaller with a pin count of 34.
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