Is this ok?
SpywareShooter
127.0.0.1
I have a spare floppy drive that I saved from a computer that I found at the dump. I understand that floppy drives are outdated now, but it's good to have one for backup . The only problem is that the floppy drive is beige and my computer is grey/black, so it wouldn't match if it was placed in the spare drive slot. I have another plug for a cable to plug it in, so I'm all set there. I'm just wondering if I can make this internal floppy drive sit outside of the computer. I thought about taking the L-shaped thing from a port on the back out (like where an AGP card goes) and running the cables through there. Would that interfere with anything? Do you have any other ideas on how I can run the cables?
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Tex
so you wanted to hook-up 2 floppy drives???
p.s. the L-shaped thing on the back of your case is called a pci (or agp) slot cover.
You never put hard drives on the same cable as cdroms.
look around carefully. You will have one floppy connector also. Every MB has one and only one.
Tex
No, this computer didn't come with a floppy drive. It seems most new chainstore-bought computers aren't since the other one didn't come with one either. I also know some people who bought new computers and they didnt' come with floppy drives.
So what would I plug into the second IDE channel?
You want all the cd/dvd's on one cable (they almost always operate at he same speed) unless you have unused ide connectors and then its even better to have each on its own cable also. Jumper them BOTH to "cs" thats cable select.
I jumper all my dvd's, cd's and hard drives as cable select so that you can just plug them into a cable anywhere and the controller figures out what they are (master/slave)
Tex