Not all 34 pin ports are floppys...

[Diffusion]

I just had my first "magic smoke" experience. I was slapping a PC floppy drive in a Sun clone box that was running an UltraAXi board. I knew these boards had 34 pin floppy connectors on them, so I slapped the floppy drive onto the first one I saw. The machine wouldn't boot, so I swapped it to one of the straight through floppy connectors, as opposed to the crossover one it had been on. When I hit the power to that machine, the cable started burning, one of the wires burned all the plastic off of it, it smells horrid, but as soon as it did it, I spotted the real floppy port. Oops. Anyhow, as I cannot dig up the documentation on it right now, I have no clue as to what its supposed to do, but its worth checking that out if anyone sees a board with two floppy connectors.

 

[Freejack2]

Ooops. Doubt those boards are cheap.

 

[toant103]

opppps, i did it again.

 

[Zim Hosein]

<< but its worth checking that out if anyone sees a board with two floppy connectors. >>


Thanks for the heads-up Diffusion, besides burning the floppy wire, is the MB still okay?

 

[Diffusion]

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<< but its worth checking that out if anyone sees a board with two floppy connectors. >>


Thanks for the heads-up Diffusion, besides burning the floppy wire, is the MB still okay? >>


Everything seems to be fine, that 34 pin connector may be shot, but I am unaware as to what it does right now, and I have no way of testing it (SCSI goes 50, 68, and 80 pin, right?). I just thought it was kind of funny, it was just such a shock to have the cable melt, the last time I had that kind of adrenaline rush from computer hardware was when I had a water cooling system fail, spraying water everywhere.

 

[Red Dawn]

<< the last time I had that kind of adrenaline rush from computer hardware was when I had a water cooling system fail, spraying water everywhere. >>

Argh!!! I bet