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| Here is a side view of our Panasonic 3.5" floppy drive (1.44 MB).
(click on the picture for a larger view) |
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| When trying to figure which way the cable goes onto a floppy, you need
to be aware there is no standard. Some manufacturers place pin 1 (red
stripe on the ribbon data cable) near the side that has the power
connector and some do it opposite. In this case it is clearly labelled
on the printed circuit board where pin 2 is, so we know that pin 1 is
right near it. In this picture the red stripe of the data cable would be
to the right. |
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| Now we have our floppy drive mounted in the drive cage. Note that
floppies will use a finer thread of screw than the hard drive. (click
on the picture for a larger view) |
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| Sorry about the blur, but here is a view of the data cable attached to
the floppy drive. Note the red strip of the data cable is to the right.
We identified earlier that this floppy drive has its pin 1 on the right
hand side of this picture. |
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| Now we attach the power connector to the Panasonic 3.5" floppy
drive. The connector and the cable have a matching groove to help make
sure you place it in the right way. |
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| For this project, we are using a Maxtor 30GB hard drive. (click
on the picture for a larger view) |
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| Here we see the connectors for the Maxtor 30 GB Hard drive. Starting
from the left is the data connection pins, then the configuration pins
and lastly the power connector. |
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| My screwdriver is pointing at the configuration pins. Currently this
drive is set to the factory default of Master. Each IDE channel
(Primary & Secondary) should have a master first (if there is
a device on the channel at all) and once there is a Master then the next
device that is on the same channel (same cable) needs to be set to
slave. We plan on doing a tutorial soon on adding a second hard
drive and there we will go into the Master/Slave relationship in greater
detail. |
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| This view shows both the floppy and the hard drive mounted in the
drive cage. Observant viewers will note these are not the drives we have
been working with as it was necessary to do this photo at a later date
(the earlier ones didn't work out). |
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| Note in this picture that the ribbon data cable has the red stripe on
the same side as the power connector. We have never seen any other
arrangement on any hard drive, but there is always a first time, so
double check by looking on the circuit board for a pin 1 indication or a
triangle. (if you blow up you hard drive we are not responsible) |
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Once again we are highlighting the red strip of the data cable.
(click on the picture for a larger view) |
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