CablesOnline 24-inch Universal Floppy Drive Ribbon Cable for 3.5 or 5.25in Drives, FF-001

I needed this cable to test out a TEAC 3.5" drive with a manufacturing date back in 1991. That was before drive connectors were keyed in any way; you needed to read the silkscreening on the drive, and at the motherboard or floppy card, in order to see which way to plug in the ribbon cable. My drive has no pins omitted, and no notch in a molding around the pins, in order to help the user. The first ribbon cable I tried was keyed at both ends, with pin 3 blocked - it was therefore useless to me. By comparison, this ribbon cable was exactly what I needed and works well. ** If you're not familiar, the red edge of the ribbon cable aligns with Pin 1 at both your floppy drive and at the motherboard/floppy board header.** On my motherboard, there wasn't any marking for Pin 1, but the motherboard had a silkscreened thick line going around only that corner of the header to indicate it.

Not much can be said a out a ribon cable. The cable was constricted nicely and like the origional cable for floppy drives it was made for both types of connectors used on them. I would buy this cable again.

Works as advertised with GreaseWeasels . Able to pull old files from 1990 and 2000 from old floppies. Great cables.

Good cables

Purchased mostly to be used with a GreaseWeazle and archiving floppy disks. This floppy cable worked fine and did the job both for my 3.5" and 5.25" needs in conjunction with the other equipment.

This was perfect for the job at hand

Used with gotek floppy emulator. Works, but have to twist cable awkwardly. Cable connectors really need tabs to prevent wrong way hookup.

I got this to finally clean up a very old 386 system I keep around where I had the 5-1/4" floppy drive mounted upside down because there was not enough length from the 1st set of connectors to the end set where the 3-1/2" is. The 5-1/4" has the card edge type connection and 3-1/2" the pin sockets. A lot of these cables don't have the card edge on them that I needed. I initially had problems with the 3-1/2" drive on the very end not being recognized but I think it was the plug not being seated enough. Got it working OK eventually. So all working as intended with that 5-1/4" now mounted the right direction.

Good product. I managed for format a few hundreds floppies in both 5" 1/4 and 3" 1/2 formats. It worked like a charm with my Asus P2B board. You just need to know there's a specific drive letter you need to use in the bios, depending on where you plug your floppy drive. If it doesn't work or the drive doesn't show up, try the other plug or change the floppy drive letter to the other one.

Funcionó perfecto con una unidad TEAC de 5 1/4 muy vieja. Pude leer más de 300 Floppy Disc. Entró en el CPU y en la tarjeta de manera correcta. Solamente cuide que el hilo marcado en rojo vaya en la dirección correcta de la tarjeta y del disco (es el PIN 1)

Ce câble m’a permis de brancher un vieux lecteur de disquettes Panasonic JU-455-5 AAB 5 ¼ po modèle DFX-80D1BRA (double coté - double densité) dans un PC AT Intel Pentium III. La carte mère est une D815EEA qui a le connecteur de 34 positions. Toutefois, ce PC comporte 2 HD, un avec Win2K et une autre avec Win98. Seulement Win98 semble supporter ce lecteur double densité. Win2K voit le lecteur, mais je crois qu’il essaie de lire en haute densité, ce qui retourne toujours une erreur entrée-sortie. La seule combinaison qui fonctionne consiste à brancher le second « Edge connector » (donc celui après la torsion dans le câble) et à déplacer sur le lecteur le jumper DS et le mettre sur MX. J’ai aussi mis le jumper DS2, mais je crois qu‘avec MX, il ne sert plus. Avec Win98, j’arrive à lire des disquettes écrites depuis 1984. Pour une raison inconnue, la première commande « dir a: » retourne toujours une erreur, mais la reprise fonctionne. Aussi, la commande « format a : » retourne parfois : « Le lecteur est en cours d’utilisation… », mais re-soumettre la commande fonctionne.

PERFECT!

The connector does not connect to my controller . I have Color computer 64 & have ; separate 2 slot 5 1/4 floppy disk drive , but cable was not compatible!