The floppy cable has a twist in the cable.
used on a floppy
A 34-pin ribbon cable.
The floppy drive cable would be about half the width than the other.
Floppy Ribbon : The floppy cable has 34 wires. There are normally five connectors on the floppy interface cable, although sometimes there are only three. These are grouped into three "sets"; a single connector plus two pairs of two each (for a standard, five-connector cable) or three single connectors. IDE Ribbon : IDE cables consist of either 40 individual wires or 80 individual wires. Ultra ATA/66 or later devices need the 80 wire cables to operate efficiently. Most of these wires are used to transfer data between the motherboard and the drives.
The common name for the data cables used on floppy drives is "floppy ribbon cable." These cables typically have a flat, multi-conductor design and connect the floppy drive to the computer's motherboard. They usually feature a 34-pin connector for the floppy drive interface.
the technical name is frc i.e flat ribbon cable
The ribbon cable is either plugged in upside-down or is damaged.
Many newer systems don't have any ribbon cables at all. Ribbon cables were used for IDE drives, SCSI drives, and floppy drives. The number of cables will depend on the number of drives in the system (16 drives per SCSI cable, 2 per IDE cable, and 2 per floppy cable).
By the colored stripe on the cable it refers to the first pin.
A floppy drive cable connects a floppy disk drive to a computer's motherboard, allowing data transfer between the two. It typically consists of a flat ribbon design with multiple connectors that can accommodate one or two drives. The cable transmits data signals and power to the floppy drive, enabling it to read from and write to floppy disks. While floppy drives are largely obsolete, these cables were essential for their operation in earlier computing systems.
Failed FDC means that the Floppy Disk Controller is no longer responding. Possible solutions to this issue are to replace the FDC (not so easy on integrated MBs) or possibly replace the floppy drive. This can also occur when the ribbon cable connecting the floppy drive is not inserted correctly.
A 34-pin ribbon cable will connect a floppy drive.A 40 (or 80) conductor ribbon cable is for (E)IDE devices.Other ribbon cables may be used (80 conductor for SCSI, and in older systems, MFM and RLL Hard drives).A smaller ribbon cable (10 conductors) may be used for USB Headers.I think that covers most of them.