There are two cables connected to the floppy drive;
Power cable - 4 pins,
Data cable - 34 pins.
AnswerA standard floppy drive cable in a computer has 34 pins.
1. A floppy cable will almost always contain a small "twist" in it, in which a port of the wires are turned in reverse.2. A floppy cable has 34 pins. A PATA hard drive cable has 40 pins.
your power supply has a small plug attach to it with several larger ones that go to your cdrom and hard drive it will fit in to the back of your floppy
The floppy drive data cable has a stripe denoting pin #1...PIN #1 on the FDD cable must be aligned with PIN #1 on the drive connector, or the drive will not work...This misalignment does not damage the drive, but the activity light will stay on constantly...To correct this, turn the computer off, reconnect the data cable aligning the pins correctly & reboot the computer....
IDE Cable (40 Pins for Hard Disk and CD/DVD)Sata Cable (For SATA Hard Disk)34 Pins Flat Cable (For Floppy Drive)80 Pins SCSI Cable (Normally in Server, Not in Desktops)USB header cableGame Port header cable
Molex and floppy drive power connectors have 4 pins. Also PCI-E and CPU power connectors have 4-8 pins.
40
EIDE cable uses a 40-pin connector at the end of the cable to interface with the drive.
They have 46 pins
34 pins in a FDD cable connector.
Typically the narrow scan cable has 50 pins.
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