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meirman

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:08 am
Post subject: What is this cable?
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I'm going through the things my friend gave me, and there are two
brand-new unused flat multi-wire cables, such as for floppy or hard
drives.

They have black 17x2 connectors on each end, and wires 10 through 15
are flipped over like in a floppy drive cable, but the difference is
that this only has connectors at the ends. Nothing in the middle.

Do you know what these are used for?


Also, I know that the hard drive cables with blue ends have shielded
conductors for ATA drives, high speed high capacity drives. But I
have one flat cable for hard drives iirc with white ends. Does that
mean anything special?

Thanks


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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:30 am
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Pretty sure it is a floppy cable. Should be kind of
short too. I have a huge box of still in the boxers
cables that I have not a clue. We had a bunch of
Suns and Decs, and they were really bad for weird
cables.

johns

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:30 pm
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meirman wrote:
 > I'm going through the things my friend gave me, and there are two
 > brand-new unused flat multi-wire cables, such as for floppy or hard
 > drives.
 >
 > They have black 17x2 connectors on each end, and wires 10 through 15
 > are flipped over like in a floppy drive cable, but the difference is
 > that this only has connectors at the ends. Nothing in the middle.
 >
 > Do you know what these are used for?
 >
 >
 > Also, I know that the hard drive cables with blue ends have shielded
 > conductors for ATA drives, high speed high capacity drives. But I
 > have one flat cable for hard drives iirc with white ends. Does that
 > mean anything special?
 >
 > Thanks


probably just a floppy cable
most machines only need a single floppy anyway<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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meirman

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:22 pm
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In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:30:55 -0600
philo <philo.RemoveThis@privacy.net> posted:

 >meirman wrote:
  >> I'm going through the things my friend gave me, and there are two
  >> brand-new unused flat multi-wire cables, such as for floppy or hard
  >> drives.
  >>
  >> They have black 17x2 connectors on each end, and wires 10 through 15
  >> are flipped over like in a floppy drive cable, but the difference is
  >> that this only has connectors at the ends. Nothing in the middle.
  >>
  >> Do you know what these are used for?
  >>
  >>
  >> Also, I know that the hard drive cables with blue ends have shielded
  >> conductors for ATA drives, high speed high capacity drives. But I
  >> have one flat cable for hard drives iirc with white ends. Does that
  >> mean anything special?
  >>
  >> Thanks
 >
 >
 >probably just a floppy cable
 >most machines only need a single floppy anyway

Thanks you guys.

What got me is the flip. I figured when they designed this stuff,
they used a plain flat cable, and didn't need the flip until they
tried to put two drives on the same cable.

But now, come to think of it, the A: drive is at the end, right?, and
the one in the middle is the B: drive, right?

So would that mean it needs a flip if there is only an A: drive
connector?


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Thomas Wendell

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:35 am
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Yes. Floppy drives usually had no jumpers for setting A: or B: , they were
all B:
Instead the setting was done by the cable
So a single drive cable had to have the crossover...

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"meirman" <meirman.TakeThisOut@invalid.com> kirjoitti viestissä
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 > In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:30:55 -0600
 > philo <philo.TakeThisOut@privacy.net> posted:
 >
  > >meirman wrote:
   > >> I'm going through the things my friend gave me, and there are two
   > >> brand-new unused flat multi-wire cables, such as for floppy or hard
   > >> drives.
   > >>
   > >> They have black 17x2 connectors on each end, and wires 10 through 15
   > >> are flipped over like in a floppy drive cable, but the difference is
   > >> that this only has connectors at the ends. Nothing in the middle.
   > >>
   > >> Do you know what these are used for?
   > >>
   > >>
   > >> Also, I know that the hard drive cables with blue ends have shielded
   > >> conductors for ATA drives, high speed high capacity drives. But I
   > >> have one flat cable for hard drives iirc with white ends. Does that
   > >> mean anything special?
   > >>
   > >> Thanks
  > >
  > >
  > >probably just a floppy cable
  > >most machines only need a single floppy anyway
 >
 > Thanks you guys.
 >
 > What got me is the flip. I figured when they designed this stuff,
 > they used a plain flat cable, and didn't need the flip until they
 > tried to put two drives on the same cable.
 >
 > But now, come to think of it, the A: drive is at the end, right?, and
 > the one in the middle is the B: drive, right?
 >
 > So would that mean it needs a flip if there is only an A: drive
 > connector?
 >
 >
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