Hello
I was looking at some of my floppy drive pins at the back for data transfer and noticed that I have 3 different configurations... why? Do all of these work on everything?
Image:
https://ibb.co/6ZmrFm1
Just thought this was weird...
On standard 34 pin floppy connectors the bottom row is all ground, they are not all required but there is a benefit of having all the ground pins: helps suppress noise and crosstalk from interfering with the data signals in the cable.
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FrankDM wrote on 2020-01-05, 21:20:Hello […]
Hello
I was looking at some of my floppy drive pins at the back for data transfer and noticed that I have 3 different configurations... why? Do all of these work on everything?
Image:
https://ibb.co/6ZmrFm1Just thought this was weird...
If they are 34 pin in good condition yes they will work on any system that accepts 34 pin 720k/1.44mg floppy disks.. Some even have the power connect on the other side.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
