Ild like to go rounded cables but......

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:57 pm

....my motherboard has put its floppy connector in the most insane spot imaginable. Its on the complete oposite side of the furthest PCI slot. Even worse, in my full tower, the floppy bay is on the very tip top. Ive measured and I would need at the very least 29 inches of rounded floppy cable. The bigest I could find on froogle google, is 24 inches.

Anyone know where I could try to find a longer rounded floppy cable?

Ya ya I know. WTF am I keeping a floppy around for? Well I still might want to flash the BIOS from time to time.

I might have to consider replacing the case. But this one has been a tried and true one for a while and I had plans on doing some modding with a dremel tool and some internal lighting.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:25 pm

Now that really sucks.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:33 pm

What's wrong with keeping a floppy drive handy, and if you ever need to use it, plug the thing in, with the floppy lying on the desk next to the case???

This aint exactly rocket surgery now is it!

That'll be $5 please.

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:36 pm

Well the hole in the front of the case would also look ugly and I dont have a faceplate.

suicide eddie · Post by **suicide eddie** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:59 am

something like this maybe?

http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?c ... &sku=27074

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:01 pm

24" long enough?

http://www.coolerguys.com/floppycables.html

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:02 pm

STRESS!! you finally appear once again!

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:05 pm

Skimmer though he be.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:31 pm

Dump the FDD. I left them out of the last 5 machines I built and never needed one. If you have to boot DOS for BIOS updates (sucky MB in that case

), use a USB pen drive or CD to boot from.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:14 pm

i like the 7-in-1 drives myself. FDD + any and all card media types

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:20 pm

I second the USB flashdrive. You have no idea how handy those little suckers are. Your motherboard will treat it as a USB hard drive, which any mobo made since the late 90's should be able to boot off of. 24 inches is as long as they come for floppies. The longest cable I've seen for regular IDE drives is 30".

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:38 pm

OK then how do I fill in the ugly floppy bay hole in the front of the case when I threw out the cases custom face plate ages ago? If I get a new case I might as well just get one with the floppy bay placed lower down.

Oh and Stress (nice to see you post occasionally BTW) I do need 29 inches and that is even stretching it very closely.

Vander · Post by **Vander** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:16 pm

Leave the floppy drive installed, but disconnected.

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:19 am

Oh wait I have an idea.

Dammit this idea came from Mobius's suggestion.

I hate to say this but thanks.

Ive been wanting to have one of those universal memory card bays anyway and looky what I found SIIG makes from a little froogle googleing:

http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=18&pid=609

Internal USB so I connect it up to an internal Motherboard USB header. And it would fit my floppy bay just nicely.

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:31 am

Mobius wrote:This aint exactly rocket surgery now is it!

ummm...is that anything like brain science?

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:02 pm

Touche, Sir.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:36 am

You will need a floppy if you have a raid card which you want to install windows on an array, you will have to load the drivers from a floppy if you want the windows install to work.