Retail for fdd. Connection of interface loops and cables for storing storage devices. Drives for internal installation

For connecting IDE-attaches on motherboards that were released before 2005, there were two 40-pin sockets ( Rice. 13.32). Trochy below the opening 34-pin socket for connecting an FDD drive.

On all current motherboards, there is a plastic clip with a P-like virus, which is a replacement key. On the motherboards of old models, there are no plastic clips, which often led to incorrect connection of sockets.

Qi 40-pin sockets are called IDEIh IDE2. Winchester connected to the IDE1 socket. To another IDE2 socket, connect a CD or DVD drive.

On all larger and smaller motherboards, the IDE1 port is blue (dark in Figure 13.32).

Although the ports do not worry about the color, the markings are applied on the motherboard: IDE1, IDE2.

For all hard disks with IDE interface, it is recommended to use an 80-wire UDMA cable. Such a loop of signal wires is more than 40, but it is also leather connected to the auxiliary wire, which has a zero potential and connection with the PC case for guidance. It is allowed to use a 40-core loop, but a hard disk with such a connection is not practical for maximum speed.

Rice. 13.32. Sockets for connecting IDE-devices and FDD-drive

The trains are always poached in such a way that you see the rose nest first. In 40-vein trains, you can see the chervonim (otherwise, the chervonim is dotted).

80-strand cables can be crafted in any color, but the first wire should always be checked for color. In addition, 80-wire plumes make different colors of pads: the first pad is blue, the other - black and the third - sira.

Mіzh blue and black stocks stand bigger, lower mіzh black and gray. Similarly to the 40-strand loop, prote all black-colored pads.

The train is always connected to the rose on the mother's board by a long time or a black block. The Master attachment is connected with a black block, and the Slave attachment is connected with gray.

On the system board, you can see the virus key, which turns off the pardon enabled loop. Such a virus is in all accumulatives. In some models, the virus is bilateral.

In such a mood, you just need to remember that the first rose of the rose was stashed in order with the rose of the life of the hard drive (these are also brought to CD-and DVD-drives).

On motherboards, a special IDE socket is installed without a central contact. For such boards, special 80-core cables with roses without a central socket are produced. As on the motherboard, there are different contacts installed, and there is no central cable at the rose cable, you can use a powerful awl, but you can open the rose at the required place.

Until recently, the keys were not on all loops, so they could be connected incorrectly. Tse usamered vіdnositsya up to 40-wire loops. If you connect a hard drive (CD-drive) with an inverted cable, then the attachment is not practical, but the system board or the attachment is not safe.

As if there is a cable without a key, carefully look at the markings on the mother board with roses - the number 1 is marked on the first head of the rose.

CD-drive connects just like a hard drive. Cost of all attachments - CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD. To improve the productivity of the computer, the hard drive and CD-drive are connected to the IDE interface on various controllers.

For example, two optical drives, for example, CD-RW and DVD, can be installed on one cable, which is connected to IDE2. One attachment is installed in Master mode, the other - Slave. Moreover, the drive, what you write, should be set to the Master mode.

As soon as two hard drives and one CD-drive are installed in the system, the first (main) hard drive is connected by one cable to the first controller (IDE1) on the motherboard and the Master mode is set on the hard drive. The other hard drive is connected by the same cable, and the Slave mode is restored to the new one.

The CD drive is connected by another cable to another IDE2 controller on the motherboard, which is installed at the Master position. It turns out that two hard drives are installed on the first controller, and only a CD drive is installed on the other.

It is not necessary to install a hard drive and a CD-drive on one cable, but only one of the attachments will support the data transfer mode, lower, calls to both attachments will be carried out in the mode that is properly supported. For example, if you connect a hard disk with an ATA-100 support and a CD-ROM, which will add only the ATA-33 mode to one loop, the hard drive robot may appear upgraded.

On fig. 13.33 shows the jumper for connecting to a CD drive in the Master mode. Livoruch in the form of an auxiliary socket for connecting an analog audio cable, which is connected to a sound card for listening to audio CD discs.

Rice. 13.33. Retail CD drive

Such a cable is also used with the appearance of CD-drives, if the attachments were played mainly for listening to audio discs ( Rice. 13.34).

Rice. 13.34. Analog audio cable for connecting a CD drive

Today's current digital MP3 format does not require connection to this cable, but to listen to audio discs it is necessary to connect to the mains socket on the motherboard or sound card. The audio cable connector has a specific shape and is not possible to fit correctly ( Rice. 13.35).

The connection to the IDE-attachment is connected via a standard 4-pin socket ( Rice. 13.36). To turn off the pardon connection of roses, there may be a special key - one of the rose flats may have a special bevel from the skin side. Analogous bevels and roses of living IDE-attachment.

Note that modern motherboards are available with less than one IDE socket, while the SATA interface requires a new step-by-step input. At this time, just IDE disks are taken out of the box and step-by-step, the transfer of DVD-drives to the SATA interface is being made. But the oskіlki market will be generous for a long time to be full of outbuildings with an IDE interface, you cannot throw this fact away from the market.

Rice. 13.35. Retail for connecting to a CD drive

Rice. 13.36. Roz'em life IDE-attachments

To connect the FDD drive, a 34-core cable is used, which is connected to the appropriate socket on the motherboard. On fig. 13.32 wines of roses below roses IDE.

The cable to the system board is connected in the same way as the cable for the IDE-attachment. When connecting the cable to the drive, pay attention to those that the first contact on the FDD drive is not closer to life, like on IDE attachments, and from the right side ( Rice. 13.37).

There are two roses on the FDD drive cable. І on the first commemoration of a small part of the plume. When a drive is connected to the "twisted" end, the system is connected as drive A, and to the other - as drive B. We guess that magneto-optical drives are also used, and they are connected by the same 34-pin cable.

If the connection cable is wrong, the disk drive will be lit with green light and will not work. And here the plume must be turned 180 °.

Rice. 13.37. FDD drive connection

More interface socket 4-pin life socket. On fig. 13.38 representations of roses for connection.

Roz'єm maє key, but when connecting a disk drive, we need to be especially respectful, the shards are the possibility of an incorrect connection, especially that tsі di viroblyayutsya "naoslіp". In this case, the frequent pardon of the adoption of roses when connected in that chi іnshiy bіk. Such a pardon can lead to fatal consequences - it can burn the drive or cause the life block.

Motherboards that support the Serial ATA (SATA) interface may have additional roses for the SATA interface ( Rice. 13.39).

Rice. 13.38. Socket for connecting an FDD drive

Rice. 13.39. Retailing the SATA interface

Less than one attachment is connected to the skin nest. As it was assigned more, just disks with SATA interface do not have jumpers for operating modes.

The old look of the SATA interface cable is shown in fig. 13.40.

For the supply of life to the processor, you need a 4-pin ATX 12V socket (in Fig. 13.42, right-handed).

The bunch of roses was called P4, the shards of victories were used to give life only to the Pentium 4 processor. Then an 8-pin socket appeared to supply even more power to the Pentium-D and Pentium 4 processors on the Prescott core.

However, today AMD and Intel processors have a lot of 4-pin interface capabilities. Rice. 13.43). Most motherboards with an 8-pin socket work both with 8-pin and 4-pin plugs, but the roses are summed one by one.
Connection of life to the system fee

Rice. 13.42. Plug for connecting the system board

Rice. 13.43. Retail ATX 12V

If the PC power supply does not have a 4-pin CPU power socket, power can be supplied using the standard power socket recognized for IDE add-ons. Іsnuyut sistemnі platy, on yakі vstanovlenі vіnіnі vіnіnі vіnіanti roz'єmіv vіvlennya і for podіvі 12 оn the processor.

On fig. 13.44 indications such a variant of the arrangement of roses.

The remaining modification to the ATX standard transfers 24-pin plugs, which were previously featured on the server blocks of life.

The main reason for the appearance of 24-pin differences was the increase in the power of the stream, which is applied to the PCI-Express slots according to the old standards. Wanting to live more modern cards with a lot of possibilities of a 20-pin connection, but the retailers transfer a further development to the standard that at the connection with the cim the possibility of increasing the tension.

Rice. 13.44. Two variants of roses for supplying money to the CPU

Most motherboards do not require a language connection of all 24 contacts. On fig. Figure 13.45 shows how a 20-pin plug is connected to a 24-pin socket.

Wide zipper on the mother board roses allows to connect both 20- and 24-pin plugs.

Rice. 13.45. Connecting a 20-pin plug to a 24-pin socket

It is required to indicate that 4 free contacts, which are left out, cannot be used at the same time to connect the 4-pin socket of the processor! The soldering of any contacts that are lost does not fit the 4-pin processor socket.

Even though a hard-wired life block with a 24-pin socket is already attached, in order to supply life to an old motherboard, it is necessary to use an adapter from 24 to 20 contacts. On fig.

13.46 testimonies of the original appearance of such an adapter, and in fig. 13.47 - adapter, insertion at the system board.

Installation of roses of life is fixed with a special stamp ( Rice. 13.45 and fig. 13.47). After that, like a rose, it will be inserted into the nest all the way, the clatter is to blame, which means the fixation of the nest.

Rice. 13.46. Life adapter 24/20 ATX

Rice. 13.47. Live connection via adapter 24/20 ATX

To get the drive from control, the SA-400 interface is installed. The stench is waiting for the help of a 34-wire cable, in which the guy is wired with signal, and the unpaired one is wired. The main version of the interface transfers connection to control up to four drives, the version for the IBM PC - up to two. In the wild version, the drives are connected in parallel to each other, and the number of the drive (0..3) is set by jumpers on the electronics board; in the version for the IBM PC, the floppy drives can be number 1, but they are connected behind an auxiliary cable, in which signal the choice (wire 10-16) is reversed between the roses of the two floppy drives. Sometimes on the rose of the drive you can see contact 6, which plays the role of a mechanical key in this way.

Data for the interface is transmitted in the sequence code in both directions (from different darts). Transmission speed for floppy disks with a capacity of 1.44 MB becomes 500 Kb/s. Like a hard disk controller, a hard disk controller in modern computers is installed on the system board (for older models of computers, special expansion boards were issued).

It’s easy to communicate with the drive interface and turn on signals to select an add-on (chotiri add-on in a hot mode, two for the IBM PC version), start the engine, move heads by one click, turn on recording, read/write data, as well as information signals from the drive roads, a sign of the installation of heads on the zero (level) road, signals from sensors, etc. All the work of coding information, searching for tracks and sectors, synchronizing, correcting pardons is checked by the controller.

The standard floppy format type HD (High Density) - 80 tracks per side, 18 sectors of 512 bytes per track. Enhanced format - 82 or 84 tracks, up to 20 sectors of 512 bytes, or up to 11 sectors of 1024 bytes.

Connection:

To connect the drive, there are two sockets: one for electrical power, and the other for data transmission and signaling. The number of roses in the computer industry is standardized: for the connection of vicory, a choti-contact linear rose Mate-N-Lock by AMP of large and small roses, signal - 34-pin roses. For 5¼″ format drives, the big rose is victorious for life, while for larger 3½″ format drives, the smaller rose is victorious for life.

The “wonderfulness” of the signal cable lies in the fact that the lines 10-16 are cut and rearranged (twisted) between the roses of the drives. Tse twisting is rearranged before that other position of the jumper to select the drive and the signals of the engine on, and also, changing the settings of the “DS” signal for the drive, which is known for twisting. Obviously, all drives in a computer with this type of cable can be jumpered, installed the same way, and adjusting that drive drive installation (the first and the other, the stinks are indicated in the system as A and B) is simple. As a rule, the motherboard can replace the integration of the controller of disk drives (like the controller board, which was used in the early days) to ensure the installation of disk drives.

When connecting cables, it is necessary to correct the orientation, as if the signal cable is connected incorrectly, the light on the front panel of the drive will light up when the feed is given. If the cable is incorrectly oriented to the electronic control circuit of the disk drive, the replacement 5 is fed 12, which is guaranteed to lead to the output of the fret. Vrahovyuchi, scho cost of repairing a piece of pay outweighing the wholesale cost of the drive itself, the repair of the drive, as a rule, is not economically costly.

Electrical connection of disk drives

Interface for connecting a 3½″ floppy disk drive: a small-sized life socket and a socket for connecting a 34-pin signal cable.

Cables: lively, right-handed - signal.

"Wonderful" twisted signal cable.

Pads for connecting 5¼" (left-handed in the photo) and 3½" (right-handed) disc drives are different. For connecting on a 3½" drive cable to a 5¼" drive shoe, a special adapter is required.

Controller programming:

The floppy disk controller, on the side of the daily programming, looks primitive - register, how to sort the byte organization, merging into a block of eight sequentially arranged middles (actually, only a part of them are victorious).

Practical robot number 7

Drive connections
The floppy disk drive is installed at the computer case. A 34-core flat cable is used to connect to the system board, deactivate the FDD (floppy floppy disk drive).

So, as in personal computers, two disk drives can be installed, behind which the logical names A: and B: are fixed, for the name of the vicorist, the drive is connected to the standard rose on the cable.
Pratsyyuyuchi in MS-DOS and Windows, since the computer has one drive, you can go up to A:, up to:. For example, you can copy files from drive A: to drive B: changing drives with different operating system commands:
COPY A:\im'ya_file B:
To connect to disk drives on that system board, cables with identical and symmetrical 34-pin sockets are used. So you don’t confuse them, you need to take care, that the first wire at the train is always red, and between roses for connecting disk drives, crossed darts from 10 to 16.
To connect an old floppy disk drive for 5-inch floppy disks, sometimes on a cable with roses for floppy drives A: and B: install additional roses of knives.
Note
At the time of the pardon connection of the floppy disk drive, if there are roses of inserts in the pack, the drive indicator will constantly glow.
The FDD interface on a personal computer is the simplest. At the table the recognition of signals was introduced at the roses installed on the system board. For example, to move the heads to the next track, you need to send the Step signal, the selection of the head number is carried out for the additional signal Side 1, the head of the track is indicated by the Index signal, etc. So that all the drive control is relied on the controller, which is located on the system board or expansion board. The floppy disk drive itself has a power part for controlling the motors and blocks that are used to work with analog signals. Mustaches of unpaired conductors at the roses are grounded.

Alarms in pink FDD system board

Pochnemo, maybe, from the head. Tobto - the main thing: we need a floppy disk (disk drive) at once, for an idea that we will “get old”, and just don’t use an up-to-date device.

Food:

is it possible to install Windows on a raid without using a "physically sound" floppy disk drive?

Suggestion:

If the OS installation requires a special driver (SCSI or RAID), you need a physical disk drive and a floppy disk. In addition, you can modify the distribution's driver base by using the required driver from the Internet ... But, as a rule, Windows is installed from a licensed disk (if you want to use the "modify" method, it does not mean destroying the license).

Tobto, it's simpler all the same to win the "physical" drive. Either there will be connections to the controller of the motherboard, or (through the connection for current boards) you can turn on the USB drive. Offending options will be considered. Ale on the back - a trifle of history.

Gnuchki disks and disk drives

The first floppy drive used in IBM-PC computers is 5-inch. Only one side of a 5-inch floppy disk was beaten, quite a few -180 kilobytes "fitted" on the yak.

Years later it became possible to beat the offending sides (Double Side), then we raised the record's strength. DS/DD floppy disks appeared (DD-supported record thickening). The capacity of such a bula is greater (to enter, to navigate not in 2, but in 4 times): 720 kilobytes!

І of which was enough for a swearing. The DOS operating system, and then Windows 2.0, took a lot less space on the disk. Computer vzagalі moment buti only with a floppy drive (and without a hard drive). 5-inch 720 KB drives have been on computers for over an hour. Moreover, the connection standard (pink and signal) is the same for all disk drives ... The SRSR produced 720-kilobyte disk drives. Well, floppy disks were: 360 kilobytes (with a single slot record), and 720.

Then, closer to the 90th year, it became clear that floppy disks could be added. In the same “physical” format, the disk drive and floppy disks were destroyed, so not 720, but 1200 KB. In the “enhanced” mode, it is possible to format them with a larger volume: 1.44 megabytes. Recently, 3.5-inch floppy disks appeared: first for 720, then - for 1440 kilobytes (in the "hardened" mode - 1.6 megabytes).

Note: 1.44 MB 3.5 inch floppy disks can read/write 2 sides. Toshiba released 3.5-inch drives that address 2.88 MB (although they never became a standard).

At once, seemingly a “disk drive”, a typical 3.5-inch floppy drive for 1.44 MB floppy disks can be removed:

Disk drives, which are installed inside the computer, are not disturbed by anything (hiba scho yakistyu). For hours of 5-inch drives (for 1.2 megabytes), they got good ones - from EPSON companies (well, “better cool” - Teak).

Before the presence of CDs, the only way to install the OS on the hard drive is the "drive" itself.

Floppy disk (i 5, i 3.5-inch) - may "zahist vіd record", go to the "cassette":

Drives for internal installation

Also, your system (motherboard) board supports the robot with an internal FDD (floppy disk) drive. Tse means that on nіy є roz'єm for connection:

The floppy disk drive itself (FDD-drive) is connected with a fee for an additional cable (loop):

The very rose, which is the charge from the “overlap” (that is, from the edge of the loop, not the middle one) - you will come to the drive. Extended rose - for the system board.

Chervona mitka cable - the first cord in the cable. On the board, the number "1" is applied (well, on the drive - there was no eating):

The same food for the drive - also, zrozumіlo, is switched on from the block of life (4-pin roses, less lower Molex). Zrobivshi qi z'ednannya, mi matimemo the presence of the drive 1.44 MB, may mark "A".

Note: The leather cable allows you to connect two FDD drives. One matime mark "A", the other "B" (ce - rose in the middle of the plume). Well, but “zavantazhuvalnym” maybe less than an “A” drive.

It is possible, it is necessary to enable the floppy drive in the BIOS-i (for locking - unplugging). Select the OS, look at it ("Control Panel", "System", and "Operation", "Appliance Manager"), which is itself enabled:

Marvel at the beginning of the list. The most frequent connections are the FDD drive, and the controller. Yes, let's go to the BIOS.

Inside the BIOS

The name of the division is called Integrated Peripherals. Let's go to the new one, and marvel at the Onboard FDD Controller row: "Enabled" required.

But not all. The controller has been disabled, but the drive itself has not been found. Idemo in Standard CMOS Features (the first item in BIOS), there is Drive A: - None (meaning, choose "None" instead of 3.5 1.44 MB). Now the disk drive will appear at the system.

In the "new" BIOSes - let's go to a friend (behind the roar of evil) tab:

1. There is an item, titled Devices Configuration (for others - I / O Devices Configuration). Going into the new one, we know a row of included FDD controller (FDC).
2. Well, the drive itself, which is included in the first tab (click, shob vin 3.5 1.44 MB and in the first row, tobto, "A").

When the floppy disk drive is stolen, it will show up in My Computer among the third storage devices (for locking - wine is to blame for the letter “A”).

Enabling an external FDD drive

First, in the BIOS there is a parameter that allows you to enable and minimize the FDD-disk function (connected via USB). More precisely:

Set the BIOS parameter USB-FDD Legacy support, so that it is enabled (Enabled), to allow flashing a USB floppy drive with floppy disks , navit yakscho operatsiyna system bachit less "standard" drive.

This point can be called in a different way. Golovne, so there was the word “Legacy” and “USB”:

Some may have Auto/Enabled/Disabled. It is recommended to check "Enabled". You can choose this way: Keyb-Mise-FDD/Disabled. Guess what you need to choose in which vipadka (so?).

Zagalom, the system is like that. On the motherboards of laptops, netbooks, and also new PCs, obviously, the “controller” of the internal drive is not to be feared. And yet, so, it is the fault of the old floppy disk drive (so, one might say, system boards, to which FDD is not connected, even if one of the most important methods is not used).

Vlasne, on what "finishing" the computer will end. Plug in the USB drive. Only, obviously, all USB controllers are due to "Enabled", and the USB mode - to "2.0" installations (or "HiSpeed", which is the same). BIOS hacks, be careful.

Note: is it necessary to switch USB to a mode not lower than “2.0”? Simply, the current drive does not only transfer data, but also USB. Navantageous building itself in the "daily" mode "2.0" will be the best (if you want, on rich boards, it's not important).

According to the companies that use USB-attachments, building with a 3.5-inch floppy disk, we can say that not everyone, who doesn’t care ... Navit Gembird (with a price of about 10 USD) is present here. It's also Samsung. Just the axis, for "our goals" - do not recommend NEC ... In our time, whether such a drive "can't" cost less than 20 USD, and let out їх 1-2 firms.

Nothing is connected to the attachments (up to one of the USB ports is connected, there is no outside life). Zagalom koristuvach himself zrob vibіr.

Having said all that, when installing the OS on the prompt “Type F6 to select a special driver” - boldly type “F6” and insert a 3.5 floppy disk (which is included with the board).

Emulation with USB-flash cards

Obviously, this function is not victorious for everyone. Ale, even in the computer (tobto in the BIOS), this is:

So, the Emulation Type item (in the middle of the USB Mass storage ... menu) - you are lucky, and you can choose Forced FDD, for a full emulation of 1.44 MB - to the drive.

The old USB floppy drive is no longer needed (you can replace the flash drive). Only the axis, upload files to flash immediately (for example, with a raid driver) - marno, formatting її navit from FAT 16.

On the right, in the fact that the USB flash drive itself must be properly prepared ... with Windows, absolutely. All data from the flash drive will be used (so it will be formatted in a special way, and only information from the "image" of the floppy disk will be written on it).

Download flash boot 2.x (http://www.panvasoft.com/rus/21626/). We install it (for Windows, as an administrator, with antivirus turned on), run:

The demo version has a number of borders (I create three more than 4 outbuildings in one image). Tisnemo "Next".

Here mi tisnemo Floppy - USB.

We select the image of a floppy disk (you have already taken yoga from the official site of the pay maker, why not?). Tisnemo Next. It will come soon. Select "wrap" there (embossed "Next"

Choose, on a flash drive, write the image of a floppy disk. And for the coming century - FAT-12 is obov'yazkovo!

Tobto, having pressed "Next", and then - "Format Now", we take a "copy" of the floppy disk to USB.

If you put such a flash drive into the USB port to the top of the head - for an idea, Windows will think during installation that there is a right floppy drive in the system ... For the sake of correct setting up the BIOS, you can roll it (more for everything).

Note: as floppy disks are needed, you will need to use USB disks.

Take an image of a floppy disk from the driver - in short, from the official site. The skin of such a file can be expanded.img, and "replace" one floppy disk of 1.44 MB.

"Zrobiti" floppy image (tobto, IMG-file) of "special" floppy disks - in addition to the Floppyimage program. Tobto, you need a real disk drive (maybe on the computer of your friends), and you will write the IMG file on your laptop.

The program is rather small (1 MB), but you can also change the settings (you can save "image" in decal formats, IMG is one of them). In this way, you can create the image of a floppy disk yourself.

Yak bachimo, "troubles" with the use of "emulation" - rich. For those who don't want to take advantage of the complexity, take the USB drive. There are no problems with such a variant (well, it’s not necessary to take only Nec firms).

From the other side, the old disk drive - more than an hour of "spilling" without doing anything. Tobto, check on your koristuvach ... to the offensive installation of "Windy".

Note: for Windows 2008 Server (and higher), as well as for "home" versions (XP cream), it can turn into a floppy disk drive, so it can also have a great USB storage device (raid drivers - "run" on a flash drive, when installing the OS ). Zrobіt vysnovki.

Vibir (what is better for you) to kill the koristuvach.

Similar to the functionality of the program:

It's called RawWrite, no installation required. Start by selecting the “Read” tab (we “read” the floppy disk) ... Save the image Fdd - only like files with IMG extensions. You can grab it here: http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite

Drive emulation for Windows

Some application programs seem to “can't live”, like a CD-drive with a distribution, otherwise - like a floppy disk drive. You can save various data (keys, etc.) on a floppy disk, so you need the ability not only to “deaf” about the presence of the drive, but also to emulate it (already - in Windows itself).

The principle of such emulation is that nothing can be changed in the way of the work of the Alcohol 120% program. (Emolyuyuchi CD-ROM).

See the demo here: http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk, we will take the ImDisk program.

Why is she out? It was fitting that there was only one exe-file for installation. Also, different versions of the OS are supported (including the latest version - 64 bits!).

The program does not create icons (for this, go to the "Control Panel").

De mi - elementary launch of the main program (having pressed the name). You need a 1.44 MB disk image (Internet takeovers).

After pressing "OK", disk "A" appears in the "My Computer", with which you can practice further (format, etc.). With the program itself, you can:

1. Save the image on the face of the nose (Save Image);
2. Vikonati formatting;
3. Vidality accumulative (Unmount).

Only all the buttons are “opened”, as in this program, press the image of a floppy disk. Remember that the window is "starting" from the "Control Panel".

Get a floppy image - you can here.

Before starting, format the floppy disk (FAT system), even if it is virtual. Mabut, that's all there is to say about the ImDisk program. Hope, your programs will be good now, vikoristovuyuchi virtual disk.

Note: when saving the image (Save Image), choose the option, like a little one.

The "image" of a floppy disk, in this program is saved with the IMG extensions.

At the end - let's say that there are a lot of such programs for Fdd emulation. Deyakі allow "trimat" image not in computer memory (RAM), but in papacy (using FTP), and so on. Spodіvaєmos, the information will be correct.

The floppy disk is a miracle and is sometimes necessary. I kindly remember that the floppy diskette helped me for an hour of rechecking the computer or improved the software security (for example, I used the Memtest program to test the operational memory and recorded it myself on a diskette). And in the past, this old format was the main dzherel for saving and transferring data. It’s a pity, but those hours have already gone ... At the same time, people use flash drives for these purposes, but few people know about diskettes. But looking back at the current moment, I wrote a report about one important problem, which is even more relevant.

A secondary floppy disk with a capacity of 1.44 MB if it occupied an important place in computer history

A lot of masters of modern computers have such a problem: there is such a situation, if it is necessary to copy information from a floppy disk, or it is necessary to write it down. Today, few people are interested in such a right, but all the same ... Obviously, it doesn’t matter if a drive for 3.5-inch floppy disks is available at once, since it’s cheap (you can install it and remove it cost-free), however, it’s possible to close it, but it’s on your mother’s pink motherboard 'em for yoga connection. You can forget about reading/writing information. I myself got stuck with such a problem: I needed to create an adventurous floppy disk, but there was no such possibility. My computer appeared to be something modern, to connect the old additions, and the old one was not practical. I asked: “Can you think of the ability to connect a disk drive? How can you booty?" And as a result, I know a little of the problem.

Old drive

The most obvious way to improve your ability to work with floppy disks is to buy an older floppy drive. Who knows what is selling USB-FDD drives. Obviously, it's easy to fix the problem with reading/writing old devices on current devices, especially on laptops, but in no other way, except via USB, you can't plug in a floppy drive. As USB-m_st connects to the drive through a standard interface, like on 34-pin sockets, theoretically you can connect a 5.25-inch drive.

An older USB-FDD drive can solve the problem of reading from floppy disks, but the number of such devices can be different

But here is one aspect. On the right, it’s problematic to know a normal USB-FDD today, you can only use Chinese-made disk drives for sale. I won’t deny that this building attachment can function normally and it’s impossible to keep the old nose, but you yourself will understand that the immovability of the building is great. I respect that the classic old floppy drives (not modern shirvzhitok) will be richer than the good ones. You can, obviously, try to expand the adapter for the external interface yourself, but it’s connected with great difficulties and great knowledge of such extensions.
There is another such accessory, like KryoFlux. Vin allows you to connect any standard disk drive (5.25 and 3.5) to the computer via USB. The price is high, but if you need to constantly copy information from floppy disks - this is the best option.

Controller

The second variant of the solution to the problem is to select a special controller. Well, there is a place for the ISA controller on the motherboard (there are many of them), and then everything will be fine. Ale de vie bacheled the current fee from the ISA bus? It's not surprising, so pay the same є (iBASE MB970 butt), but the stink is quite rare and recognized for a specific victorious station (computer industry only), and the price of such boards will be far from low. For example, I didn’t know about other options for FDD controllers for the PCI bus (I don’t want to get photos of these boards on the Internet, but I don’t know yet), but I know for PCI-E it’s nameless. That and for what price is such a price to be sold? Therefore, the knowledge of such a respected controller can be given to great luck. I repeat, you can try yoga yourself.

IDE and FDD controller for the ISA bus. For today's computer, it doesn't work: ISA is outdated in the last century

superdisk

Descho exotic, but even more effective way. Vіn pіdіyde for practical be-like, navіt the most modern system. Obviously, for this option, it is necessary to know the deaak’s right of possession, ale, tim is not less, tsey way can have the right to life. The main reason for the implementation of the method is the availability of an IDE-pin (for the availability of such a PCI-IDE controller, or, for the availability of a SATA-pin - an inexpensive IDE-SATA adapter), and the availability of an LS-120 drive. Rozpovіm briefly, scho tse for the drive. LS-120, or SuperDisk - one of the "driven" floppy disks that were planned. Iomega's 1995 release standard. This technology made it possible to record and save data on special media with a capacity of 120 MB (or 240 MB), which was planned as a replacement for old floppy drives and floppy disks. Some people called it a floppy disk, because technologies of magnetic and optical recording were combined. Connected to the computer via the IDE interface. After the expansion of more cheap ones, such as CDs and DVDs, this standard could not take root and was too old.

Diskovid LS-120. I support it like my own non-standard floppy disks, so I choose 720 KB and 1.4 MB. However, yoga is important to know

Diskovid LS-120 in front. From the first glance, it practically does not look like a great disk drive

However, why did the SuperDisk feature? And the trick was that such a drive could read and write not only its non-standard media, but also classic floppy disks for 720 KB and 1.4 MB, which allowed it to be written like a standard floppy drive. The very possibility of reading / writing floppy disks and connecting through the IDE-interface allows you to work with old-fashioned noses from the most modern hardware security. I, before the speech, checked it on my computer with the Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H rev.1.1 motherboard, the Intel Pentium G2030 processor and the installed Windows 7 operating system. Well, the system immediately began to vibrate the installed drivers, and after that, I immediately started working with the ancient information carrier. Read from the nose, to whom the fates have already turned 30, on modern technology, it is amazingly remarkable. One note: for proper operation, I recommend installing a jumper on the drive in the MASTER position. So, SuperDisk also has options for SCSI, LPT and USB interfaces.

The floppy disk is formatted on a modern computer for help LS-120

SCSI whistleblower? It's also an option. To be more specific - you can find a floppy drive that can be connected to SCSI directly or through an adapter card. Ale de know such a rare device? However, if you know this at the same time as a controller, then as a bonus, you also take off the connection of a large number of additional attachments for the SCSI interface.

SCSI controller. Support different accessories: hard drives, streamers, CD-ROMs, scanners and floppies!

Other system unit (laptop)

Well, come on, the last option, the simplest. Nothing expensive and expensive shukati is not required. Find another, old system unit, on which the drive support will be normal. The best option for robots with floppy disks. Transferring data from one computer to another can be done in different ways: through a local network, through a null-modem cable (due to the presence of a wired connection, or in case of an old one), via a flash drive (due to the presence of USB) or CD, DVD blanks. The only critical shortfall of such a method for such coristuvachs is the need for a free space for another system unit (if you want, they can cost even a sprat). For those who, for some reason, cannot have two computers, only the front options can be played. I don't want to, I still need to beat the old laptop out of FDD :)

Old system block. Vіn іdealnyy for work with old noses

What about 5.25-inch floppy disks?

If you need to read information not from a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk, but from a bigger old and rare 5.25-inch floppy, then it will be more foldable. Here LS-120, obviously, it’s no longer helpful, don’t go to wines for rosemaries :) However, we need to decide on options, although the most optimal of them is to win another system unit specifically for such purposes. And if you want to read the 8-inch “monster”, then I can think of only one option: folding a special adapter and organizing life for a majestic floppy drive 127 volts!). But really, it’s not so unrealistic, it would be a bummer ... and a floppy disk, for which you need to throw off valuable information.

5.25 inch drive. There are no particular problems with connection.

... well, you can’t turn on the “wonderful” without reworking

Visnovok

Well, on which article I want to complete, but I’ll say another sprat of words. Obviously, whether one of these options will help people to make a copy of these old floppy disks, or to continue the work with them for the obviousness of an old possession, de, crim floppy disks, you can’t transfer information by any other means. By the way, I recommend speeding up with an old computer. Tse allows not only full practice with floppy disks, but also allows you to save computer history in this world, so that we need to stop the old possession and ryatuemo yogo forgetfulness. On an old computer, you can not only make copies of floppy disks, but also a lot of other things.

Addendum request:
Anglomovna reading data from floppy disks is our hour;
The site of the retailer of a pay-adapter for connecting a 5.25-inch drive via USB, you can get it from the USA.

For respect!

Text, photos - Oleksandr Antyushenya

Zalizni mayor of the past - 2015

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