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aongusa

aongusa

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Sep 24, 2004
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Is it ever accurate to refer to the floppy drive controller or cable as an IDE controller or cable?
 
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No. The floppy disk drive is connected to a completely seperate controller on the motherboard, therefore it is a floppy cable, not an IDE cable.

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Or a completely separate portion of a chip for those that are fully integrated in one I/O device.

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Thanks for the reply. I'm on a kind of hardware skills update course and the instructor keeps on referring to the floppy drive controller and cable as IDE. I was fairly sure it wasn't but just wanted to check.
 
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