what power cable do i need for the floppy drive?

So I have the power cable. The floppy does not show up. On the mpc all I see is disk read error. What is wrong? Do I even have the right ribbon?

Bump. Really need some help

Does the floppy drive power on at all?

Post some pictures of the inside of your MPC showing how you have the cables connected to the motherboard and how they are connected to the floppy drive.

MPCHunter wrote:Does the floppy drive power on at all?

Post some pictures of the inside of your MPC showing how you have the cables connected to the motherboard and how they are connected to the floppy drive.

Doesn't power on at all. I'll post pics when I get home.

The floppy drive I have is a mitsumi d359m3. Could this be the problem?

I tried this in my computer and nothing powered up.

Also I have the ribbon with the twist as you can see in picture from my original post. Is that the wrong ribbon to use? I was told I need one that's not twisted. I also read any floppy ribbon will work. I don't know. I'm frustrated and trying to do everything I can.

MPCHunter wrote:Does the floppy drive power on at all?

Post some pictures of the inside of your MPC showing how you have the cables connected to the motherboard and how they are connected to the floppy drive.

Here's the connection on the back of the floppy drive



Here's the floppy ribbon connected inside the mpc



Here's the floppy power cable plugged inside the mpc

Anyone?

Have you tried a floppy cable without the twist?

I think the MPC is designed to use a cable without the twist, so will probably not work with a cable that has the twist, as the supplier of the drive told you.

If you do not have one, or easy access to one, you could take the back of the floppy connector off, where the twist is, remove just the twisted part of the cable, press it back on without the twist, and put the connector back together.

Or, take the connector off the cable altogether, press it back on before the twist, probably more to the correct length for what is needed, cut the part of the cable with the twist off (making sure you use a sharp blade, so it is a clean cut, and so the wires in the cable to not touch each other where the cut is).


Are you sure that the red power wire is going to pin 1 on the floppy drive?

SimonInAustralia wrote:Have you tried a floppy cable without the twist?

I think the MPC is designed to use a cable without the twist, so will probably not work with a cable that has the twist, as the supplier of the drive told you.

If you do not have one, or easy access to one, you could take the back of the floppy connector off, where the twist is, remove just the twisted part of the cable, press it back on without the twist, and put the connector back together.

Or, take the connector off the cable altogether, press it back on before the twist, probably more to the correct length for what is needed, cut the part of the cable with the twist off (making sure you use a sharp blade, so it is a clean cut, and so the wires in the cable to not touch each other where the cut is).


Are you sure that the red power wire is going to pin 1 on the floppy drive?

how do i correctly take the connector apart? i decided that i want to try using floppy since i already have the drive.

The connector is 2 pieces, like this...


Or possibly 3 pieces, if it has the extra strain relief part (which from your photo above, it does not seem to have)...


The parts clips into each other, with the clip on either side, you have to lift the edge of the clip on both sides, and lift the back of the plug off.


When assembling them, the ribbon cable is positioned over the insulation displacement blades, and then the two parts are pressed together, which forces the blades through the insulation to make contact with the wires in the ribbon cable...




Might be worth pulling the back off of the plug, lifting off just the section of ribbon cable where the twist is, leaving the rest of the cable connected to the plug, and then pressing it back together so that the twisted part of the cable is reconnected, untwisted.

do you know where i can purchase the cable for cheap? mine is different than the one you are showing and i'm willing to just pay for it. the only thing is that mpcstuff has it for $30 and i can buy the cable, a floppy disc and another floppy drive for only $35 which is only $5 more. i just dont want another floppy drive when i already have one.

No idea where you would buy them from, I made my own.

If you do buy one, I think it needs to be 9-10 inches in length.


Looking at your cable/connector, it looks the same as those in the photos above, it just has a different number of pins.

These are standard IDC connectors, you just have to unclip the rear part, in your photo it is the part on the left of where you can see the ends of the ribbon cable/wires...


Pull the plug out of the drive, see if you can work out how to separate the two parts, you should have to lift a little tab on each side of the plug to unclip the top part.