FDD1 Slot on Mainboard Broken. Can you use IDE1

[kimberlymadsen]

Built my first computer and made a rookie mistake. Kept switching harddrives around and hooking and unhooking Floppy Disk Drive Connector. Have a SATA Hard Drive in my computer and an extra IDE slot. Is there a cable you can buy to run the floppy off the IDE slot? If there is a cable, what is it called and how do I buy it? I would prefer to not replace my motherboard.

 

[4Ryan6]

Not that I know of, but you can replace the floppy drive, with an internal Zip drive.

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[Cybercraig]

This is a question best answered by Crashman. Seek him out!

 

[Crashman]

Whoever said Zip is a sped...you can't read your old disk off a Zip. You can get an LS120 drive. These are IDE drives that support 2 disk types, LS120 (120MB) and Floppy, from the same slot. They look just like a Floppy drive.

There's also an LS240. It has the amazing ability of running 120MB and 240MB disk, plus floppies, and even formatting a floppy disk to something like 30MB!

LS120's were always a better option than Zip, but didn't have the marketing force behind them. The Zip should have never existed, and wouldn't have, except that most customers are uneducated.

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[Crashman]

You could also simply get out the solder iron and repair your board.

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