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a cable for connecting a floppy drive to the computer motherboard.
AnswerA standard floppy drive cable in a computer has 34 pins.
FDD cable is for floppy disk drive (FDD).
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.
Floppy data cable is 34 pin flat cable having two connectors for floppy drive. The floppy drive connected at the end connector is A: and the another connector disk is B:..
There are two cables connected to the floppy drive; Power cable - 4 pins, Data cable - 34 pins.
There are two cables that connect to the floppy drive in a desktop computer.There is a four pin power cableThere is a ribbon cable that has a part twisted end (the twisted end connects to the floppy drive).
used on a floppy
The most usual occurrence of this when the data cable is plugged in upside down onto the floppy disk. Just unplug is and flip it over. Nothing has been hurt. Just power down, flip the data cable and power up again. Otherwise, something is wrong with the floppy and it should be replaced.
the data cable connected to the floppy drive is connected in reverse.
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....
transferring data for one to other device