I looked at the photos of the USB FDD emulator and it appears that the floppy connector will not accept the 3.5-inch FDD connection cable inside a Yamaha PSR 2000. It looks like the emulator was designed to accept a wider cable than the one inside the keyboard that connects to the keyboard's FDD. The cable in the keyboard has a twist in the ribbon close to its FDD connector (for drive selection, I suppose) and the connector shown in the emulator PCBA photos at leads me to believe that the emulator does not accept such a cable.
Skuddle wrote:I looked at the photos of the USB FDD emulator and it appears that the floppy connector will not accept the 3.5-inch FDD connection cable inside a Yamaha PSR 2000. It looks like the emulator was designed to accept a wider cable than the one inside the keyboard that connects to the keyboard's FDD. The cable in the keyboard has a twist in the ribbon close to its FDD connector (for drive selection, I suppose) and the connector shown in the emulator PCBA photos at leads me to believe that the emulator does not accept such a cable.
Skuddle wrote:The longer connector is about 2.2 inches long; the shorter is about 1.9 inches long.
I don't see any problem : The left cable is a IDE/PATA cable - no point with floppy disk drive.
The Right cable is a floppy cable and can be used without problem with the HxC (USB , SD, ...)
Okay, thanks for the confirmation. The reason I asked is because Floppy connector on the motherboard in my HP desktop computer looked like, and indeed must be, an IDE connector.
I also noticed that the USB FD Emulator is not write-capable i.e. it is a read-only unit. That means I can only transfer files from the USB connector to the FDD cable. I need to be able to write via the FDD connector as well.
I see on your web page that the SD version does have write capabilities so that's what I'd be interested in.
Thanks for your time, and sorry about the image upload - I couldn't find a way to delete it after I had uploaded it.
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It looks like the emulator was designed to accept a wider cable than the one inside the keyboard that connects to the keyboard's FDD. The cable in the keyboard has a twist in the ribbon close to its FDD connector (for drive selection, I suppose) and the connector shown in the emulator PCBA photos at leads me to believe that the emulator does not accept such a cable.