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#1 User is offline   pcandpc 

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Posted 24 July 2005 - 02:24 PM

Hello?

I'd like to resurrect my old 420 MB Conner Tape Drive
that is connected to the floppy data cable.

Tape drive's data cable is broken and I need to replace it.

Does anyone know where I could get/order it?

I tried to contact Seagate/Conner but being an obsolete
device it is, they do not support this device anymore.

Thanks.


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Posted 24 July 2005 - 02:27 PM

eBay is your friend.

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Posted 24 July 2005 - 08:21 PM

Hi jcarle,

Great! Thanks.

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Posted 25 July 2005 - 11:22 AM

wasn't it just a standard floppy cable, or does it have the really old card edge connector instead of the pin style connector?

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Posted 28 July 2005 - 03:22 PM

Hi IcemanND,

Thanks for your feedback.

Well, the broken cable itself looks very alike
to the standard floppy cable but has wider width.

The tape drive itself has the pin-style connector.

I actually tried using a regular standard floppy cable
but the tape drive won't work.

For your information, the broken cable used to work
such that one end gets connected to the tape drive and
the other end to the floppy connector on the system board.

And, the actual floppy drive is connected to the middle
connector (floppy) on the broken cable, and this middle
connector is the part that's broken sadly.

If I can make this tape drive working using a regular standard
floppy cable somehow, that'll be wonderful.

Regards,

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