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Weird floppy drive, How to connect it?
I bought a floppy drive on ebay, intending to replace the dead one in my
old Win98 desktop computer. I did not know what I was getting as far as the cables. The drive itself is very thin, and I knew that when I bought it, but it's wide enough to fit in the drive bay, so I only thought there would be space around it in the bay. What I got has NO power connector at all. It just has one plug with very small pins, which has 26 pins. (With my poor eyes, it could be 25 pins or something else close to 26). It says it's made for a Lenovo computer, and this computer is a Lenovo. The drive is a Sony Model MPF820. I'm kind of thinking this is made for a laptop computer, so maybe I cant use it at all. It's not a big deal, I did not pay much for it, but I am wondering of there are adaptors made for it, so it can be used on a regular desktop data cable and power supply. I will mention that it says 5v 750ma on it. |
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Weird floppy drive, How to connect it?
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I bought a floppy drive on ebay, intending to replace the dead one in my old Win98 desktop computer. I did not know what I was getting as far as the cables. The drive itself is very thin, and I knew that when I bought it, but it's wide enough to fit in the drive bay, so I only thought there would be space around it in the bay. What I got has NO power connector at all. It just has one plug with very small pins, which has 26 pins. (With my poor eyes, it could be 25 pins or something else close to 26). It says it's made for a Lenovo computer, and this computer is a Lenovo. The drive is a Sony Model MPF820. I'm kind of thinking this is made for a laptop computer, so maybe I cant use it at all. It's not a big deal, I did not pay much for it, but I am wondering of there are adaptors made for it, so it can be used on a regular desktop data cable and power supply. I will mention that it says 5v 750ma on it. Power is carried on the cable itself. VCC could be +5V. https://images10.newegg.com/NeweggIm...16-02.jpg?ex=2 This is a possible pinout. So far I haven't run into a document for the MPF820 to confirm it. And no, it cannot be a "direct subset" of the 34 pin, since one side of the 34 pin is all ground, and one side of this has mixed power on it. One diagram I saw, somebody only connected the VCC on pin 1 with some wire, leaving the other pins open. TABLE B-9 FDD Connector Pin Assignment Pin Signal I/O Pin Signal I/O 1 VCC 2 INDEX 3 VCC 4 FDSELA 5 VCC 6 DSKCNG 7 VCC 8 READY 9 NOTCH0 10 MONA 11 LOWDNS 12 FDCDCR 13 GND 14 STEP 15 GND 16 WDATA 17 GND 18 WGATE 19 GND 20 TRACK0 21 GND 22 WPROTC 23 GND 24 RDDA 25 GND 26 SIDE Buying adapters probably costs more than the drive itself. http://www.cwc-group.com/c74972.html And you'd want to check check and recheck that the wiring is actually the right flavor. Since I did see someone showing a diagram of a cable with "slight offset" which cannot possibly work for a drive like this. This one would be suited for connecting directly to the motherboard 34-pin. You'd still need the $8 cable from the other page though, to go from the adapter to the bay where the floppy is installed. This thing is $10. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1~8AA...MAj/s-l300.jpg ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/1pcs-34-Pin...-/262908814882 ) At this point, I cannot really guess at how many 26 pin standards there are. There are at least two of them. There could be more. Paul |
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Weird floppy drive, How to connect it?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:10:24 -0400, Paul wrote:
wrote: I bought a floppy drive on ebay, intending to replace the dead one in my old Win98 desktop computer. I did not know what I was getting as far as the cables. The drive itself is very thin, and I knew that when I bought it, but it's wide enough to fit in the drive bay, so I only thought there would be space around it in the bay. What I got has NO power connector at all. It just has one plug with very small pins, which has 26 pins. (With my poor eyes, it could be 25 pins or something else close to 26). It says it's made for a Lenovo computer, and this computer is a Lenovo. The drive is a Sony Model MPF820. I'm kind of thinking this is made for a laptop computer, so maybe I cant use it at all. It's not a big deal, I did not pay much for it, but I am wondering of there are adaptors made for it, so it can be used on a regular desktop data cable and power supply. I will mention that it says 5v 750ma on it. Power is carried on the cable itself. VCC could be +5V. https://images10.newegg.com/NeweggIm...16-02.jpg?ex=2 This is a possible pinout. So far I haven't run into a document for the MPF820 to confirm it. And no, it cannot be a "direct subset" of the 34 pin, since one side of the 34 pin is all ground, and one side of this has mixed power on it. One diagram I saw, somebody only connected the VCC on pin 1 with some wire, leaving the other pins open. TABLE B-9 FDD Connector Pin Assignment Pin Signal I/O Pin Signal I/O 1 VCC 2 INDEX 3 VCC 4 FDSELA 5 VCC 6 DSKCNG 7 VCC 8 READY 9 NOTCH0 10 MONA 11 LOWDNS 12 FDCDCR 13 GND 14 STEP 15 GND 16 WDATA 17 GND 18 WGATE 19 GND 20 TRACK0 21 GND 22 WPROTC 23 GND 24 RDDA 25 GND 26 SIDE Buying adapters probably costs more than the drive itself. http://www.cwc-group.com/c74972.html And you'd want to check check and recheck that the wiring is actually the right flavor. Since I did see someone showing a diagram of a cable with "slight offset" which cannot possibly work for a drive like this. This one would be suited for connecting directly to the motherboard 34-pin. You'd still need the $8 cable from the other page though, to go from the adapter to the bay where the floppy is installed. This thing is $10. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1~8AA...MAj/s-l300.jpg ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/1pcs-34-Pin...-/262908814882 ) At this point, I cannot really guess at how many 26 pin standards there are. There are at least two of them. There could be more. Paul Yea, it looks like the adaptors would cost more than the drive. I paid about $7 for it. The ebay pic did not show the plug, and I thought all floppy drives for a PC had the same connectors. I guess not! Thats the problem buying from ebay, every so often you get stung. It's not worth trying to send it back either. Guess I'll just order another drive, this time I will make sure the plugs are standard. I am curious what this drive is for though. It has to be some sort of laptop. By the way, the drive says it's from Sept 2006, and it did come with the cable, but both ends of that cable are the same 26 pin skinny plug. |
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Weird floppy drive, How to connect it?
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:10:24 -0400, Paul wrote: wrote: I bought a floppy drive on ebay, intending to replace the dead one in my old Win98 desktop computer. I did not know what I was getting as far as the cables. The drive itself is very thin, and I knew that when I bought it, but it's wide enough to fit in the drive bay, so I only thought there would be space around it in the bay. What I got has NO power connector at all. It just has one plug with very small pins, which has 26 pins. (With my poor eyes, it could be 25 pins or something else close to 26). It says it's made for a Lenovo computer, and this computer is a Lenovo. The drive is a Sony Model MPF820. I'm kind of thinking this is made for a laptop computer, so maybe I cant use it at all. It's not a big deal, I did not pay much for it, but I am wondering of there are adaptors made for it, so it can be used on a regular desktop data cable and power supply. I will mention that it says 5v 750ma on it. Power is carried on the cable itself. VCC could be +5V. https://images10.newegg.com/NeweggIm...16-02.jpg?ex=2 This is a possible pinout. So far I haven't run into a document for the MPF820 to confirm it. And no, it cannot be a "direct subset" of the 34 pin, since one side of the 34 pin is all ground, and one side of this has mixed power on it. One diagram I saw, somebody only connected the VCC on pin 1 with some wire, leaving the other pins open. TABLE B-9 FDD Connector Pin Assignment Pin Signal I/O Pin Signal I/O 1 VCC 2 INDEX 3 VCC 4 FDSELA 5 VCC 6 DSKCNG 7 VCC 8 READY 9 NOTCH0 10 MONA 11 LOWDNS 12 FDCDCR 13 GND 14 STEP 15 GND 16 WDATA 17 GND 18 WGATE 19 GND 20 TRACK0 21 GND 22 WPROTC 23 GND 24 RDDA 25 GND 26 SIDE Buying adapters probably costs more than the drive itself. http://www.cwc-group.com/c74972.html And you'd want to check check and recheck that the wiring is actually the right flavor. Since I did see someone showing a diagram of a cable with "slight offset" which cannot possibly work for a drive like this. This one would be suited for connecting directly to the motherboard 34-pin. You'd still need the $8 cable from the other page though, to go from the adapter to the bay where the floppy is installed. This thing is $10. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1~8AA...MAj/s-l300.jpg ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/1pcs-34-Pin...-/262908814882 ) At this point, I cannot really guess at how many 26 pin standards there are. There are at least two of them. There could be more. Paul Yea, it looks like the adaptors would cost more than the drive. I paid about $7 for it. The ebay pic did not show the plug, and I thought all floppy drives for a PC had the same connectors. I guess not! Thats the problem buying from ebay, every so often you get stung. It's not worth trying to send it back either. Guess I'll just order another drive, this time I will make sure the plugs are standard. I am curious what this drive is for though. It has to be some sort of laptop. By the way, the drive says it's from Sept 2006, and it did come with the cable, but both ends of that cable are the same 26 pin skinny plug. You know, I got a "spare" floppy recently (last six months) in town here. And the drive is a Sony. An MPF920. With a regular 34 pin connector plus 4 pin power. And it's dated Feb.2006. Sounds like somebody had some stock they were sitting on for a while. Like vintage wine, 2006 was a good year. A bumper crop. Paul |
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