Floppy Cable Question

[Om]

I have a few single floppy cables that have a 'plug' in the connector on both ends blocking one of the holes, not sure of the proper name. So I thought that simply removing the little plug which is just a small peice of plastic, that it would work on my floppy drive and motherboard. It doesn't. On boot it just says 'Floppy failed'. The connectors on my motherboard and on the floppy aren't missing any pins at all. Why won't this cable work, and is there anyway to make it work? Thanks.

 

[gopunk]

plug? like how 40 pin cables are sometimes 39 so that you plug it in correctly?

 

[Jiggz]

You're cable is of the older style. But it should work as long as you remove the blanked off hole and orient the cable properly with the mobo and the floppy. If the floppy light is steady on as soon as you boot the computer the cable orientation is incorrect. If the light stays off all the time and don't even light up during boot process (assuming you have the floppy as the first boot device) then the floppy is dead or the power cable is not connected correctly. Insert a boot disk and see if the system will boot from the floppy drive.

 

[LanEvoVI]

I'm not sure if this is the problem, but i find myself plugging in the cable upside down all the time. Recheck your conxn's because i've had this happen to my 4-5 times. In the same day...hehe...yes I am a moron sometimes.

 

[Om]

Weird, I've thought all the same things about this cable. Should work, plugged in wrong, dead drive, power cable problems. But it's none of these. I removed the little peice of plastic that's blocked on of the holes in teh connector of the cable, and plugged in the floppy to it and the one to the Motherboard, but don't get any responce on boot other than 'Floppy failed'. No activity from the floppy drive at all. But, when I use another floppy cable the drive works fine??? Maybe the older cable is wired differently? I"ve tried three of these cables so I doubt it's the cable.