40 Pin IDE to 34 Pin floppy connector.

Retro6 · 18 Mar 2019 at 11:11

Is there a 40 Pin IDE to 34 Pin cable or adapter to enable me to use a 3.5 floppy drive on a 40 pin IDE socket?

I been looking everywhere for one of these and I just wanted to know if these exist, if not would it be simple to make one by cutting and joining a floppy cable to a IDE cable?

I'm building an MS-DOS PC and the board has no floppy connector only IDE.

vanpeebles · 18 Mar 2019 at 11:18

The IDE and floppy channel are two different things. You could use an LS120 drive that connects via the ide socket.

a1ex2001 · 18 Mar 2019 at 18:19

Retro6 said:
Is there a 40 Pin IDE to 34 Pin cable or adapter to enable me to use a 3.5 floppy drive on a 40 pin IDE socket?

I been looking everywhere for one of these and I just wanted to know if these exist, if not would it be simple to make one by cutting and joining a floppy cable to a IDE cable?

I'm building an MS-DOS PC and the board has no floppy connector only IDE.

Time for a different board if you want a floppy!

mmj_uk · 18 Mar 2019 at 19:06

It's not possible even if you somehow butcher the cables together you'd just be connecting a floppy drive to an IDE controller which expects totally different signals.

I've heard of ISA floppy controllers but chances are if your motherboard is new enough to not have a floppy controller then it definitely won't have ISA slots.

Like alex2001 says if you want to use a floppy drive then your only real option is to buy a motherboard with a floppy controller.

Flibster · 18 Mar 2019 at 22:17

vanpeebles said:
The IDE and floppy channel are two different things. You could use an LS120 drive that connects via the ide socket.

Go with this, it reads and writes 1.44mb fine so with no floppy connector, it's your best bet.

Retro6 · 22 Mar 2019 at 00:46

Thanks for the recommendation's I didn't pay anything for this old board it would probably be good for Win98 but I have plenty of machines that can do Windows 98. I'll look for another board with a floppy connector & something more suitable for an MS-DOS PC build.

ElectroGehirn · 25 Feb 2023 at 10:43

Ohhh, i also thank for the answers here, because i want ide ports on my new pc but i only want to use the pci slot, so i searched, but find only a very expensive card that has what i need, it has 2x ide ports, 1x floppy slot, 1x io parallel port and also one for these old mouses on the io, but what i realy need is 1x ide slot 1x floppy and 1x parallel port thats all i need, but i didn't find any card :v
but thanks for the answers here that it is not possible to convert the floppy slot to the 40 pin ide port

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Feb 2023 at 12:24

Ah the good old days windows 95 on 13 floppy disks.