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The connector on a floppy drive consists of 34 conductors. Both control and data use this same cable. Most cables have a twist that interchanges pins 10 through 16 at the end of the cable (on 1). Most floppy connectors have a "key" between pins & 6, and 3 & 5, to prevent the cable from being reversed. At the other end, the dual row connector that attaches to the controller card will usually have a set of ridges that coincide with cutouts in the controller card's connector. Note that old style floppy-only controllers used a card-edge connector just like that of the drive.


(34 PIN IDC MALE at the computer & diskdrives)

Pin Name Dir Description
1GND-Ground
2 /REDWC OUT Density Select
3GND-Ground
4 n/c   Reserved
5GND-Ground
6 n/c   Reserved
7GND-Ground
8 /INDEX IN Index
9GND-Ground
10 /MOTEA OUT Motor Enable A
11GND-Ground
12 /DRVSB OUT Drive Sel B
13GND-Ground
14 /DRVSA OUT Drive Sel A
15GND-Ground
16 /MOTEB OUT Motor Enable B
17RES-Reserved
18 /DIR OUT Direction
19GND-Ground
20 /STEP OUT Step
21GND-Ground
22 /WDATE OUT Write Data
23GND-Ground
24 /WGATE OUT Floppy Write Enable
25GND-Ground
26 /TRK00 IN Track 0
27RES-Reserved
28 /WPT IN Write Protect
29GND-Ground
30 /RDATA IN Read Data
31GND-Ground
32 /SIDE1 OUT Head Select
33GND-Ground
34 /DSKCHG OUT Disk Change

Note: Direction is Computer relative Diskdrive.
Note: All odd pins are GND, Ground.

Note: Can be an Edge-connector on old PC's.


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