floppy reader problem

yucao89 · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject: floppy reader problem

Hi,

yesterday my floppy drive lost 1 pin at the back of it! is that considerated broken?

Ziraku · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject:

http://www.zorg.org/pinouts/floppy_drive/pc_internal_floppy.html

You may be in luck... if it's any of the odd ground pins, you should be able to just tie it to another ground...or even just happilly forget about it. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong here, people.
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